System() function in 5.8

[Ravinder Chauhan]

After installing Perl 5.8 my @files = system("dir bex*.* /od /b") function
has started behaving strange. Under 5.6 this function used to return the
list of files for matching files, however now in place of file list it is
returning a number "65280". I would appreciate if someone could help me in
this.
 
Thanks,
Ravinder