Shells - non-blocking?

[Dar Scott]

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" ?

You might be able to build something like that with processes (see  
open process etc in the doc).  Three or four years ago I found a lot  
of communication problems with processes on Windows, but I'm also  
finding this year some things fixed that were not-a-bug back then.   
If you don't need a response or can pass it through a file, then the  
process can work.

Dar Scott