Executing 2 commands simultaneously

jay469 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Initiating one DOS/Windows Command from a perl scripts is easy, however, how do you issue two or more commands simultaneously, time synchronized from a perl script?

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Re: Executing 2 commands simultaneously by C-Keen (Monk) on Oct 06, 2001 at 01:52 UTC
You may look at a node I 've already written on the subject: forking and process control or the more basic eplanation Running more than one process (the very basics). This should help you get goind. For further reference read the chapter about IPC in the camel and also look up `perldoc -f fork`and `perldoc -f wait` To run dos commands lookup `system` Hope this helps, C-Keen Update:ooops did I read DOS/Windows? This Advice might be true for Windows NT or Win2000, it is definetly true for unix boxes and most certainly false for 16 bit operating systems w/o multitasking (such as MS DOS) sorry. On those OS you are not able to run Processes simultanously at all	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Executing 2 commands simultaneously by wog (Curate) on Oct 06, 2001 at 03:04 UTC
You may want to look at the Win32::Process module.	[reply]