Getting Rev control back after shell()

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Tue Jan 11 16:44:18 EST 2005


On Jan 11, 2005, at 1:04 PM, RGould8 at aol.com wrote:

> If I've got a shell() call that executes a unix command that takes 
> awhile to
> complete (up to 3 minutes), is there a way to give control back to 
> Revolution
> while it's taking place?

I guess you need an 'open process' workaround.  Maybe you can make one 
with appleScript and Terminal.

Dar

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