OK confimed my suspicions of my misuse of paskages. The example you gave makes much more sense.

In an effort to clarify myself, the sentence you quoted is DWIM. This isn't an asynchronous operation, doesn't involve sockets or actual data passage. Think of the listings as a sub that's just in another file. This is a single run operation that will be set up with cron to run a few times a day.

You're right that running Wine (I imagine any system command running a program?) does block further execution, but thankfully this is exactly what I want to happen.

Sorry this isn't such an advanced project ;) Thanks for your help

Ransom

In reply to Re^2: Running script from script by Ransom
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