If you want to start a whole bunch of programs and you are not bothered about their return values then you need to start each command in a 'new window'. In UNIX you would add an ampersand to the comand. The windows approach would be to use the start command.

The following example shows this in action. The main script starts a number of other scripts which run simultaneously. The command also uses wperl.exe which is perl without a command window. 

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

foreach (1..5) {
    system (qq(start wperl.exe -e "sleep($_);print 'Done!'"));
}

print "Launching application has finished\n";

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In reply to Re: launching perl processes from a perl script on Win2K by inman
in thread launching perl processes from a perl script on Win2K by Anonymous Monk

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