I feared Fork would be the answer. Having stared at the books a while it still doesn't make much sense. However I have a feeling that to do what I want I'd need to fork hundereds of times and I think that would be bad form.

I guess what I'm really after is a true 'fire and forget' entity which Perl doesn't have ('cos it's too responsible). Looks like I might have to use a batch script Yuk

I'd love to add another book to the shelf but I couldn't really justify it as I've still to read the ones I've got. I'll bare it in mind though if some kind sole suggests we need some more reference material.

In reply to Re: How to make... - Thankyou people by 2mths
in thread How to make my script to more than one thing at once? by 2mths

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