Re: starting a program without waiting for it to terminate

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings patrick On 30 October 2002 at 23:36:27 +0100 (which was 22:36 where I live) patrick might have written > i'm running apache 2.0.43 and php4.2.3 on win2k. what i need to do in my php > script is to start some windows executable. but as it's taking quite a bit > until it terminates i want php to continue without waiting for it. i tried > lots of stuff but nothing worked and i'm quite desperate now. is there any > way or am i trying in vain ? Yes there is a way. Create a shortcut use php to run the short cut. - -- See you in Cyber space, _______________________________________________ David | David Elliott | Software Engineer | _________________________| david@elliott.uk.com | PGP Key ID 0x650F4534 | | I'm a thinker, I think, but I may be wrong. | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 6.5.8ckt http://www.ipgpp.com/ iQA/AwUBPcFwO/mK8eZlD0U0EQJTiwCgmQ4Vp8jSBPaHxRpAx/MPaGGDUIEAn079 W27K0a80yEoIVnXOwvNZZAZj =6LFH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----