Bkgnd process that returns immediately

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Hi Mark,

I just dont use the ampersand and it works like a charm...

cheers
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Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 16/03/2007 13:21:54:

> A 2005 thread (from Brian, Xavier, Chipp, et. al) talked about
> re-direction to achieve a non-blocking shell call, using 
> 
>  get shell("mycommand > mylogfile.log &")
> 
> My brain cannot get this to work.  Let's say I want Rev to start
> "C:\blah.html" using shell(), and then continue executing downstream Rev
> handlers.  I've tried variations of
> 
>  get shell("start > C:\blah.html &")
> 
> and
> 
>  get shell("start > C:\shellTemp.txt &")
> 
>       where shellTemp.text contains 
>        C:\blah.html
>       among other variations
> 
> but nothing works.  The following 
> 
>   get shell("start C:\blah.html &")
> 
> does work, but it is blocking.
> 
> I understand the ampersand performs a handoff but am ignorant of the
> overall sequence of events.  What am I doing wrong? 
> 
> Mark
> 
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