Try this:
system( "start evince /path/to/pdf.pdf" );
Both cheap and nasty.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Kasak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:37 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Windows: Fork and run a process in the background
Greetings.
I'd like to trigger an application to open ( Acrobat Reader ), and *not*
freeze my perl app while it's open.
Under Linux, I do:
system ( "evince /path/to/pdf.pdf &" );
The ampersand does what I need. This doesn't work under Windows. Is
there a cheap & nasty workaround?
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