Shells - non-blocking?

[Joel Guillod]

On Aug 13, 2006, at 3:30 AM, David Bovill wrote:

> I want to call the shell command and let the user get on with other
> gui stuff... wouldn't it be nice to have:
>
> put shell("something really slow") with message "doneIT" ?

Very good idea!
Do you fill an enhancement in Revzilla? If not I'll do it, let me  
know...


On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:42:35 -0600 , Dar Scott wrote:

> You might be able to build something like that with processes (see
> open process etc in the doc).

I cannot figure out how to implement that. Have you a sample script?