Hi Laurent,
Thanks for your response. Ok. That makes sense. However, still not sure how to acheive this in Windows. I have been looking for several options online and a lot are very skeptical about forking in windows and all I tried so far has not worked.I tried the fork() emulation in perl for windows. It just never seemed to run the background script, though it did return a pid.
I will explore the .bat option. Thanks for your inputs again. Appreciate it.