Skip, There is some documentation to be found by looking at the jtask.ijs script via this command:
open 'jtask' In one of the windowing interfaces. In general, they all use the Windows function CreateProcess: "Creates a new process and its primary thread. The new process runs in the security context of the calling process." fork and spawn execute a program directly. shell uses the 'cmd' shell to execute programs or shell commands. -- David Mitchell On 11/5/2011 0:38, Skip Cave wrote: snip > Several methods to run command-line tasks were mentioned previously in this > thread, including spawn, fork, shell, and spawn_jtask_. The documentation > was not clear on the differences between all these different verbs, so I > attacked the problem by trial and error. Is there a doc somewhere, that > explains when to use each of these nouns, and the pros and cons of each one? snip ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
