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in reply to how to run non-waiting background process

Use: 

system 1, 'theCommand';

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I'm pretty sure that worked on 5.6.1; but it was a very long time ago.

If not, this will work:

system 'start /b theCommand';

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Re^2: how to run non-waiting background process
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2013 at 16:27 UTC
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