Good day, everyone.

I've been away from the Monastery a long time, the bosses have me doing strictly Java programming these days. However, I've come across a problem whch can best be solved by applying a little Perl...

I've got a short script which sends an XML and an XSL file out to an XSLT parser, writes the output to a file, then opens a browser window with the HTML result in it. That much is easy, but the script will not stop executing until the browser window is closed. Does anybody know how to make a non-blocking call to another app in Win32?

Here's the calling line of code:

Win32::Process::Create($processObject, $iexplore, "iexplore $outputFil
+e", 0, DETACHED_PROCESS, ".");
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Thanks go out to anybody who can help me out with this.

Hot Pastrami

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