From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: bash and '&'
27 Mar 1998 03:49:33 -0800
Message-ID: <Eq8xDB.DzI.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <351195A6 DOT EC707EC1 AT is DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <351195A6 DOT EC707EC1 AT is DOT nyu DOT edu>,
Alexei Podtelezhnikov  <aqp1022 AT is DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
>I want to leave a simple program running after quiting the shell, and
>even logging off. It's done under unix by adding '&'. I failed to do
>this using cygwin32. Is it supposed to behave the same way under
>cygwin32? What should I do?

It should work.  What does "failed" mean exactly?
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