I give thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions. Especially you
Jenda . Yours is the easiest to implement, and exactly what I was
looking for.
David
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:19 -0700, inthepickle wrote:
> Really quick question. In Perl, if I open a file in notepad
> system( "notepad.exe $file" ) ;
> Perl stops processes and will not continue until I close notpad.
> How can I open the file, and have Perl continue running?
Look up start in th
From: Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> >
> > From: inthepickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >> Really quick question. In Perl, if I open a file in notepad
> >> system( "notepad.exe $file" ) ;
> >> Perl stops processes and will not continue until I close notpad.
> >> How can I o
Jenda Krynicky wrote:
>
> From: inthepickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Really quick question. In Perl, if I open a file in notepad
>> system( "notepad.exe $file" ) ;
>> Perl stops processes and will not continue until I close notpad.
>> How can I open the file, and have Perl continue running?
>
> s
From: inthepickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Really quick question. In Perl, if I open a file in notepad
> system( "notepad.exe $file" ) ;
> Perl stops processes and will not continue until I close notpad.
> How can I open the file, and have Perl continue running?
system(1, 'notepad.exe', $file)
Jend
inthepickle wrote:
>
> Really quick question. In Perl, if I open a file in notepad
> system( "notepad.exe $file" ) ;
> Perl stops processes and will not continue until I close notpad.
> How can I open the file, and have Perl continue running?
Quick question, slow answer.
Perl will either spawn a
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html
... the parent process waits for the child process to complete.
The return value is the exit status of the program as returned by the wait call.
You want to first fork and run the command in its own thread.
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html
