Re: Pipe and Par questions


"Jürgen Exne> If you want the called program to run in the background, then you will
have to start it in the background. You can use the DOS "start" command
to do so on Windows. I have not heard fo a "run" command, thou.


Windows XP has a DOS start.exe command available. And I have been using it
successfully with Perl for quite a while. I could not find that program
anywhere in Windows Vista. Instead it has a "Run.lnk" command that will
work if you also use the SendKeys command with it. Things are more
complicated. But it does get the job done fast and without any screens
flashing.

Are you trying to control the other program from you Perl program? Then
you may want to check out Expect.

Yes. I would like Perl to send commands and data directly to another
program. I had not heard of an "Expect" command but will check on it.


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