RE: Windows: Fork and run a process in the background

2006-06-06 Thread Timothy Johnson 

Try this:

system( start evince /path/to/pdf.pdf );

Both cheap and nasty.

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From: Daniel Kasak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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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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Re: Windows: Fork and run a process in the background

2006-06-06 Thread Daniel Kasak 
Timothy Johnson wrote:

 Try this:

   system( start evince /path/to/pdf.pdf );

 Both cheap and nasty.
   

That does it. Thanks :)

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IT Developer
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North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060
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