in reply to Re^2: launching external program with SYSTEM causes script to hang until program closed
in thread launching external program with SYSTEM causes script to hang until program closed

Even easier on Win32 is system( 1, $cmd ). It is unfortunate that this easy way to "spawn" (which the Perl C code knows how to do portably) was never exposed for Perl scripts to do portably.

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