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- From: fame1@ix.netcom.com (Matt Kittleson)
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- Subject: Re: Put a job in background
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:18:05 GMT
- Organization: WildFire Software
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- ee_yeh@uxmail.ust.hk (Edmond Yeh) wrote:
-
- >I am using NT 3.51 and there is a program called fax.exe which can be
- >run in DOS command line : "fax -3 -1234567 abc.txt" to fax out the docunment
- >in 3 trials.
-
- >I would like to include this function in a cgi program using C++ or
- >perl script so that when the user click the button , the job is send
- >to background to fax out the document while he can continue to browse
- >other pages document.
- >I have tried to simply call the system function in C++ , but the screen
- >just hangs without and action. The same case in Perl.
-
- >Is there any way to do that ?
- >I read from the newsgroup that I can use the _spawn function in C++ to do
- >background job, can anyone explain how this is done ?
- >Any other way to do that using Perl ?
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- >Thanks a lot,
- >Edmond
-
- What compiler are you using and for what platform? If it's windows
- anything its no problem.
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