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Need help calling 'C' program from perl
I created a cron in unix that fires off a perl script which in turn calls a 'c' program. The problem is that I need the 'c' program to finish before the script continues on. I first tried exec() but the perl script terminated without continuing when the 'c' program was finished. Then I tried...
