Sorting filePro Arrays
Kenneth Brody
kenbrody at bestweb.net
Mon May 19 07:34:10 PDT 2008
Quoting Fairlight (Mon, 19 May 2008 05:06:11 -0400):
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:44:07PM -0400, after drawing runes in
> goat's blood,
> Jay Ashworth cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
[...]
>> > If 'start' prepended to the command actually works, then you're going to
>> > get a secondary window in the interim while it "forks off"
>> (asynchronously,
>> > of course). You can suppress that with one of the flags to start. I
>> > believe it's /B. The start command has its own help, so it's not hard to
>> > find.
>>
>> Sure, but how would he then *wait* for it to finish?
>
> Semaphore file indicating completion, polling EXISTS loop.
Why not just use start's "/wait" flag?
(Not that you should need to call "start" in the first place.)
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