I do concurrent builds on many different Unix boxes from Windows, not by using threads, but by using remote shell (rsh client comes standard with Windows). The remote shell fires off a nohup Unix build script that writes its output to a Unix log file. After starting the Unix build script, the local rsh exits; this puts no strain on my Windows box at all and by firing off builds like this on 10 different Unix boxes, I am getting concurrent Unix builds; and I can check the status of the builds simply by running a remote shell that greps/tails the Unix log files. This whole process is easily automated via a Perl script.

On a system lacking remote shell (such as MVS perhaps) you might try using CPAN Net::Telnet module to automate everything you currently do by hand via telnet. This is not as nice as rsh because you need to "delay here" and "expect this", but it can be done (I have used this technique to control remote builds and regression tests on remote systems lacking rsh).

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