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in reply to simultanious system calls on windows

Since you want 4 processes to finish before you begin the 5th, you could run 4 child processes and tell the parent process to wait ( halt execution ) until all those return. The main problem I could see running into which I have in the past is saving the data from those processes in variables you associate with the parent process. But this is one way to do it, though they won't really be seperate "scripts" in the file-sense.