Running script in background.

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Mon May 2 17:05:57 EDT 2005


Larry Bates wrote:
> You have two choices:
> 
> 1) You can use Windows Scheduler to run the script in the
> background.  I have lots of scripts that I do this with.
> 
> 2) You can convert the script into a Windows Service, which
> will run in the background continuously.
> 
> I know of no way to manually start something in the foreground
> and have it execute in the background (unlike on Linux).

Depending on your definition of "background", the "START" command in 
Windows is one way of doing precisely that.  START /? for help...

-Peter



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