Craig A. Berry [Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:27:20 +0000 (09:27 -0500)]
Perl waits for the subprocess to complete before continuing
execution in the current process. As described in L<perlfunc>,
the return value of C<system> is a fake "status" which follows
-POSIX semantics unless the pragma C<use vmsish status> is in
+POSIX semantics unless the pragma C<use vmsish 'status'> is in
effect; see the description of C<$?> in this document for more
detail.