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Writing a program that launches two different executables

 


fredsmith
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Aug 8, 2009, 2:51 PM

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Writing a program that launches two different executables Can't Post
Is it possible to write a Perl program that launches two separate executable files? I have tried to write such a program, but it runs the first executable and then stops. Here it is:

@args = ( 'C:/PMAIL/Programs/winpm-32.exe -A',
'C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe' );
system(@args[0]);
system(@args[1]);

Is there are a way to modify this, so that it will also launch the second program? Thanks for your help.


spider
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Aug 9, 2009, 11:26 PM

Post #2 of 3 (277 views)
Re: [fredsmith] Writing a program that launches two different executables [In reply to] Can't Post
This is almost just guessing (I think i read something like this once), but I have never tried and also I do all my programming on unix.

I think that system runes an external program, wait until it is finnished, and than returns. I therefor would beleve that it should start the second program when you close the first one.

exec is another function you could try. I think that works slightly different. Please read the description of these function. You can find doc on perldoc.perl.org.


fredsmith
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Aug 11, 2009, 3:29 PM

Post #3 of 3 (269 views)
Re: [spider] Writing a program that launches two different executables [In reply to] Can't Post
Dear Spider,

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,

F. Smith

 
 


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