Shells - non-blocking?

[Brian Yennie]

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Brian Yennie
Chief Technology Officer
QLD Learning, LLC
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You might try something like:

get shell("mylongcommand > output.txt &")

This should redirect the output to a file and return immediately.  
It's not as clean as triggering a "done" message with new syntax  
would be, but it may be workable. You might try searching the  
archives - I seem to recall discussing this one many moons ago...

HTH,
Brian

> 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?
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