integrating rsync with Rev

[Phil Davis]

Sorry - I didn't complete my thought...

A background process is non-blocking. In the example below (IIRC) 
"tResult" would receive the process ID from shell().

Phil Davis wrote:
> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
> -- snip --
>> For me, the main problem is that the process is blocking. I would love
>> a faster alternative to Rev's FTP commands, but I can't have it
>> blocking everything else. Is there a way to open a process in a
>> non-blocking manner, perhaps by redirecting it's output to a file and
>> checking it every now & then to estimate progress?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sarah
> Hi Sarah,
>
> What happens if you do something like this instead:
>
>         put shell("/rsynch.sh &") into tResult
>
> In other words, can you start your script from shell() as a background 
> process? I've done that with a couple of different long-running apps.
>

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