I can not find any way to do this other than through the use of nohup on the linux/unix.

You could start your program in background in a subshell, i.e.: instead of simply calling something like:

/usr/local/bin/myprogram.pl &

you could run it as

( /usr/local/bin/myprogram.pl & )

Putting those parentheses around starts a new shell and runs the program in it. When you close your "main shell" (that is, the one from which you ran the program) the program remains alive.

Ciao!
--bronto

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