Subj : background scripts
To   : Jame Clay
From : tony summerfelt
Date : Mon Apr 01 2002 01:08 pm

 # On Sun, Mar 31/02 at 08:54 AM, Jame Clay wrote to James Vahn:

 JC>    Well, if it exits it won't "remain running";  something running in
 JC> the background is no different from any other program in that
 JC> respect...

a while ago i posted perl code that allowed a perl program to fork itself, exit 
one copy and remain running in the background...

i'll hunt that down and post it again...i thought it was included in the 
vspa.arj archive i had but i seemed to have misplaced that one...

..t

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