[tex-live] texlive perl

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On 14 April 2010 16:00, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
> Lars Madsen wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Can anyone get tlperl to start Adobe Reader? I'm trying to see if In can
>> get
>>
>> latexmk -pdf -pv file.tex
>>
>> to work on Windows (WinXP or Win7), but Adobe Reader keep failing.
>>
>> Interestingly psv.exe does seem to work with a simply
>>
>> $file = "test.pdf';
>> system("start psv.exe $file");
>>
>> and on cmd.exe
>>
>> start test.pdf
>>
>> opens AR just fine.
>>
>>
>
> forgot to mention that apparently there is no problem with
>
> system("start $file");
>
> if one is using ActiveState perl.
>


Strange. This works for me with our perl just fine:

  perl -e "system('start somefile.pdf')"

Cheers,

Tomek