From: Jeff AT Fried DOT net (Jeffrey C. Fried)
Subject: Re: bash and '&'
29 Mar 1998 03:30:05 -0800
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Try ZSH.  It supports a 'disown' command under unix and the NT version may
have it as well.  Disown separates a process from the shell which spawns it.

.... jeff

At 02:01 PM 3/19/98 -0800, you 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?
>
>Thanks.
>Alexei
>
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