in reply to Linking to Web from Tk Fork, Spawn and Proc Background

Don't fork. It only takes a second or two to spawn the cmd.exe process (which runs the start), and that process is backgrounded, so control returns to your program pretty quickly.

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Re^2: Linking to Web from Tk perl
by InterGuru (Sexton) on Feb 03, 2005 at 15:16 UTC
    I originally did not fork. The program would hang up. Only when I ended the program with a cntrl-c, would the web site would appear. That is what led me to try a fork in the first place.
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      Here's how I do it in Adso.pl, a Tk-based PerlMonks client: 
      require Win32;
{
    my $pid;
    Win32::Spawn( $path_to_firefox_exe, qq(-url "$url"), $pid );
}

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      I may have been wrong about the cmd.exe thing.
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