First off, thank you for your reply. I believe signals will work gret.

<snip> It's not clear from your description that either process needs to exit until the work is done. </snip> I am not trying to be an asshole, but I didn't think I needed to be clear as to why I needed two processes running at the same time. I thought I could just say it. But since it may help, here is my response.

The process is nget. Nget is a command-line usenet binary grabber. The reason that I want two ngets to run at the same time is so that I have two connections to my usenet provider. Without at least two ngets running I don't get as good of download time (Retrieving articles then assembling takes some time away from downloading).