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RE: AW: AW: Starting Programms in the background
- To: mayers at bmc dot com
- Subject: RE: AW: AW: Starting Programms in the background
- From: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy <kahl at informatik dot uni-kl dot de>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:47:22 +0100 (MET)
- cc: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Mike Ayers wrote:
>
> This may sound like a stupid question, but have you tried simply
> "winword <filename>"? I believe that Word uses CreateProcess to spawn
> its own master process (WinMain()), so you shouldn't need to background
> it. In fact, it may be the process launcher (main()) that you're
> hanging in the background. If you try "winword <filename>" from
> cmd.exe, then you can exit cmd.exe while Word is still running, so it
> may work from bash, too.
>
> I just tried this with notepad and wordpad, and both detach from
> cmd.exe but not from bash, so this may not work, but it's still worth a
> try...
Does not work here too.
Tried it in bash with and w/o "nohup" and "&"
After Ctrl-D, bash exits, but the window remains open.
Bjoern
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