Re: Re: Starting a new process (fork?)

Well, I'll try all suggestions until I find a solution that works. However, system("dyana >/dev/null 2>&1 &"); will not work I suspect - because this script is running on an NT box... so /dev/null doesn't exist.

Is there an NT equivalent?

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Jonathan M. Hollin
Digital-Word.com

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Re: Re: Re: Starting a new process (fork?) by Zoogie (Curate) on Apr 17, 2001 at 17:27 UTC
NT has the "nul" (yes, three characters) "device": `echo "I can see ducks." > nul` [download] Dunno how much that helps... too early in the morning... - Zoogie	[reply] [d/l]
(tye)Re: Starting a new process (fork?) by tye (Sage) on Apr 17, 2001 at 18:55 UTC
As Zoogie points out, you can use "nul" (or even "/dev/nul"). In NT, you can use "`>nul`" and "`2>&1`", but you can't use "`&`". But you can do any of these: `system(1,"dyana >nul 2>&1"); system("start dyana"); # something with Win32::Process` [download] - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l] [select]