>I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I have a script
>that will run for long periods of time (checking a url every once in a while
>to make sure it is up) on a Windows98 machine. The script works fine, but it
>runs in a dos window. Is there a way in which I could invoke the script and
>have the dos window with the script running in the background?
You could try the following:
use Win32::GUI;
# hwnd is a handle to a window - basically, window's
# way of keeping track of it's program windows...
$hwnd = GUI::GetPerlWindow();
# comment this to see error messages in a dos window
# otherwise, this will hide the blasted thing...
GUI::Hide($hwnd);
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