Getting Rev control back after shell()

[RGould8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/12/05 11:19:29 AM, fde101 at fjrhome.net writes:


> That works fine in Terminal, but Rev still waits for the command to
> finish.  Quite stupid, really.
> 
> Under Windows, there is a "start" command that can be jury-rigged to do
> this.  Not sure how to handle it under OS X/*nix (believe me, I've been
> trying to figure that one out too).
> 

Hmmmm, there's just got to be a way around this - - - - how about some sort 
of unix "start this command 2 seconds from now" type of call, where you'd get 
the control back in Rev immediately.   Is there such a thing?