Problems with opening a word doc on similar systems

[sc00170@cc.uoi.gr]

I am facing a very strange problem while i try opening a word document through
my perl program.

So far, i use the system() function.

system(1, $winword_pathm $word_document);

That works well on a win98 system, but it doesn't on another win98 system.

Those machines have Office 97.

What is the real problem because it drives me mad. Have you ever face such a
annoying problem?

Please help!!!

[R. Joseph Newton]

[email]sc00170@cc.uoi.gr[/email] wrote:

> I am facing a very strange problem while i try opening a word document through
> my perl program.
>
> So far, i use the system() function.
>
> system(1, $winword_pathm $word_document);
>
> That works well on a win98 system, but it doesn't on another win98 system.
>
> Those machines have Office 97.
>
> What is the real problem because it drives me mad. Have you ever face such a
> annoying problem?
>
> Please help!!!

Is the path actually the correct path on both machines? Default installations
locations are not always where a program is found. On Windows, it should not be
necessary to hard-code the path anyway. The system executable search path
shouldinclude the folder containing Winword.exe if Office has been properly
installed. All you should need then is:
system("winword $word_document");

On Win2K, its even easier. The command environment in NT integrates much better
with file associations, so I just need to:
system($word_document);

Joseph