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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Daniel Kasak
Try this:
system( start evince /path/to/pdf.pdf );
Both cheap and nasty.
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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
Timothy Johnson wrote:
Try this:
system( start evince /path/to/pdf.pdf );
Both cheap and nasty.
That does it. Thanks :)
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Daniel Kasak
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Hi Perlers,
I know that questions like this get asked all the time, but I guess
it's just my turn to ask 'em!
I need to kick of some processes in my script. However, the script
needs to kick them all off at once and then stick around to do some
other things. I'm kinda new to Perl, but in my
Hi Perlers,
I know that questions like this get asked all the time, but I guess
it's just my turn to ask 'em!
I need to kick of some processes in my script. However, the script
needs to kick them all off at once and then stick around to do some
other things. I'm kinda new to Perl, but
Errin Larsen wrote:
Hi Perlers,
Hello,
I know that questions like this get asked all the time, but I guess
it's just my turn to ask 'em!
I need to kick of some processes in my script. However, the script
needs to kick them all off at once and then stick around to do some
other things. I'm kinda
