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Re: Parallelling system_exec

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Jun 28, 2004
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> I'm writing a script that just has to call an executeable roughly 20
> times. All I want is for the code to return immediately from the
> system call, not wait for the executeable to finish (most of the time
> is on the server).
> 
> There are no gui elements to this script at all... I don't want to be
> shackled to a gui library.
> 
> What about the win32lib shellExecute? Does it wait for the program to
> finish? Or what about the "start" moniker. Does it allow parameter
> passing?
> 

shellExecute (using a no-win32lib hack, searched the forum for info)
doesn't seem to be working for me either... it will run a simple
program, but it won't take command-line parameters...


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MrTrick