Help with Window Script

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm wondering how to run a perl script as a background process in Windows 7. I can run the script in vmware through linux, but that's not exactly what I want to do always and its kind of a pain.

--Jerod

Comment on Help with Window Script

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Help with Window Script by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 25, 2011 at 22:17 UTC
It's not clear what you mean by 'background process'. However you can install Perl using Active State's Perl or Strawberry Perl. Both distributions will allow you to run Perl natively under Windows 7. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: Help with Window Script by cdarke (Prior) on Jan 26, 2011 at 08:40 UTC
This is very similar to How to run perl script in background on Windows posted just a few hours earlier (are they related?) There are several good links to other similar nodes which should point you in the right direction.	[reply]
Re: Help with Window Script by rovf (Priest) on Jan 26, 2011 at 15:34 UTC
<doc://perlport> - see the section about the `system` function: "system(1, @args)" spawns an external process and immediately returns its process designator, without waiting for it to terminate. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l] [select]