ipcBeginProcess(simplifyFilename("~/src/prog/myprog"))

procedure(from_perl()
 let((cid process)
   process="perl hello_perl.pl"
   cid=ipcSkillProcess(process)
))


procedure(test()
  cid=ipcBeginProcess("perl C:/test.pl")
  ipcWaitForProcess(cid)
  while(ipcIsAliveProcess(cid)
    printf("%s" ipcReadProcess(cid 5))
  )
)

 skipc.pdf

CAD Scripting Languages: A collection of Perl, Ruby,Python,TCL &amp; SKILL scripts
 Par Quan Nguyen

http://support.cadence.com/wps/PA_DocumentViewer/pubs/fphelp/fphelp6.1.5/chap10.html#1075637