How to run a script using Shell in the background?

[MisterX]

I have to stop half reading... 
I keep giving out wrong answers ;)

The piping works! I use it everyday...

You can also check for a busy file using a
utility like psfile via cmd on the pc or use
the pslist which lists the programs - you wait
until your cmd (which you can rename 'cmd /?') 
is gone. Unix should have the same (bin ?)
commands I believe. cigwin could work too.

And there's an filebusy xcmd and osax for macs...
but no cmd ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Dar Scott
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 17:49
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: How to run a script using Shell in the background?
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Bojsza wrote:
> 
> > Surely there is a way to have the Shell run in the background 
> > therefore allowing the user to do other things in the application?
> 
> There is a shell option.  (I forgot what it is for different shells; 
> I'm not awake yet.)  You might have to use a shell script.  You can 
> redirect to a file and look at the size of the file for progress.
> 
> I have tried this in the past for OS X and ran into trouble.  At the 
> time I was trying to read named pipes in Revolution and that may have 
> blocked things.
> 
> Dar Scott
> 
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