Re: Running programs in the background?

Michael Schlenker schrieb:
Volker Hetzer schrieb:
Hi!
On Windows (XP) I'd like to run two programs (cmd /c ...) in parallel
and then wait for both of them to complete.
How would I go about it?

Either use twapi to wait for some pid, or simply use the open | syntax
instead of exec and run those programs in pipes with fileevent.

The fileevent man page has an example:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/fileevent
So I open a pipe, process file events until I get an EOF,
increment some variable and vwait in a loop until that variable is 2?

Sounds good to me.

Thanks a lot!
Volker
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