[PLUG] perl question

[peter]

i'm fiddling with perl, and i have a question that i can't seem to find an
answer to.. i have a perl script that i want to run telnet or ssh from
(depending on user input), but when i finally get to the point where i run
it (with `telnet $ARGV[0]` etc..) it run's, but doesn't show the output..
that is, it seems to be eating all the output.. so how do i get perl to
call a unix command in the middle of the script, have the program act
normally, and then continue after the unix command exits?

thanks,
peter

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peter weber                    "To know that we know what we know,
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pweber1@purdue.edu                                      -Confucius
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