From: "Chas. Owens"
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:14, Chuck wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a GUI where, if a button is clicked, Putty (the remote access
> > program) is launched using
> >
> > System("C:\\Progra~1\\Putty\\putty.exe");
> >
> > is launched. However, when this is executed, the orig
Hi Chuck,
Chuck wrote:
We have a GUI where, if a button is clicked, Putty (the remote access
program) is launched using
System("C:\\Progra~1\\Putty\\putty.exe");
is launched. However, when this is executed, the original GUI freezes,
and we cannot use it unless we close Putty. We tried using
thanks for the help, everyone. We found a way that works...we used
Win32::Process::Create.
On Feb 18, 7:02 pm, chas.ow...@gmail.com (Chas. Owens) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:14, Chuck wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > We have a GUI where, if a button is clicked, Putty (the remote access
> > program
Hi Chuck:
I don't think exec will do the right thing.
According to perldoc.perl.org, exec will stop the current process to
execute another one while
system will do a fork() first, so system will be your right choice I think.
This is a short example I did recently:
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:14, Chuck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a GUI where, if a button is clicked, Putty (the remote access
> program) is launched using
>
> System("C:\\Progra~1\\Putty\\putty.exe");
>
> is launched. However, when this is executed, the original GUI freezes,
> and we cannot use i
Hello,
We have a GUI where, if a button is clicked, Putty (the remote access
program) is launched using
System("C:\\Progra~1\\Putty\\putty.exe");
is launched. However, when this is executed, the original GUI freezes,
and we cannot use it unless we close Putty. We tried using the fork()
command l
