in reply to Launching multiple processes

The simplest way is probably to do precisely the thing that you want to emulate: 
  system "MyProgram &";

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Re: Re: Launching multiple processes
by JeffR100 (Acolyte) on Jan 07, 2004 at 21:38 UTC
    Thanks for the simple idea. I assumed that since a & between backticks didn't work, it wouldn't work with system() either. Jeff
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