Shell command doesn't give feedback until done

[Brian Yennie]

Ugh. I just tried this and it doesn't work in Rev- although it's the 
standard way to deal with this sort of task in a terminal.
I'm guessing that Rev refuses to return until the process is completely 
terminated- and opens a whole new shell environment every time you call 
shell(). How rude!

Now picking for a workaround... sorry for the false alarm.

> On 6/2/05 4:23 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:
>
>> Agh, sorry- I obviously missed the point of the thread.
>> Add an ampersand after your command:
>> get shell("mycommand > mylogfile.log &")
>> Voila, a "backgrounded" process that returns immediately.
>
> Oh cool. I will go try it. I have a use for this. :)
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