Hi all, I have a program too large to post a code snippet, and my system() call does not work. It returns false, and the $? variable is set to 32512. Looking through various errno.h files, I couldn't find a corresponding number. Ugh! I have a little hello world program that runs system() just fine. Anyone know how to interprest the 32512? Anyone know how to find an error message in English? Any other ideas to narrow the root cause scope of this problem? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt http://www.troubleshooters.com slitt / troubleshooters.com