How about:

system("/SYS/PUB/DISCFREE E");

Or way more verbosely:

system("callci 'run discfree.pub.sys;info=\"E\"'");

- Mark B.

John Korb wrote:

> I know very little about Perl, and I'm trying to use Perl to parse the
> NAME=VALUE pairs from a POST form and then pass some environment variables
> and the VALUE strings (in a specific order) to an MPE program through the
> MPE program's INFO= parameter (not much data).  To do so I need to know how
> to tell Perl to execute the MPE program with an INFO= string specified, and
> I can't seem to find a reference that describes how to run a program from
> Perl (but I can find many references on calling Perl from C).  I have the
> Perl code for parsing the NAME=VALUE pairs and it works.
>
> Also, perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way.  If there is an easier
> (non-Perl?) way of doing this, please let me know.

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