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From: "Johan Henriksson" <jhe AT realsoftware DOT cjb DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: running a program in the background
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:58:42 +0200
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from: Johan Henriksson, leadprogrammer @ www.realsoftware.cjb.net
"It is not the length of life that counts but what you make out of it" - me
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>Hi
>
>I am trying to write a perl program which schedules a job periodically.
>In between jobs, the program sleeps. So, if I run the program, I can see
>the dos window sitting on my desktop.
>
>Is there a way to run my program in the background in dos without me
>seeing a dos window, like what UNIX is capable of.


me? You'd be glad if it even runs the apps. IIRC it doesn't support spawned
apps in
a reasonable way. To make the DOS-window disappear, you must use the
win32-api.
Try NT. I think it has a cron-implementation. Better, switch to unix and try
the original
(and best :)