Try either the system function (which will allow you to return to your program after your call to dtterm is finished) or the fork function.
Hope this helps, Kevin On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:56 pm, Ashish Srivastava wrote: > hi everybody, > > how can i run any command in background > like in shell- > unix-shell% dtterm & > > but in perl i want something like: > $string_contain_pid = `dtterm &`; > > but its not working > > > > *************************************************** > Ashish Srivastava -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
