How to start invisible perl process?

[JD9955]

hi all,

I am wondering how I can start a perl process which doesn’t show a general cmd screen..

Eg, at the moment I have a perl program that doesn’t write output to a screen (only a file). This program forever loops and writes to a file. Now, I have a batch file which contains the following (to kick off my perl program):

Perl perProg.pl

However, when I run the batch program to kick off the perl program, a cmd window is displayed,, how can I start my perl program and not display this cmd screen..?


Cheers, and thanks all

JD
(the perl aussie battler)

 

[chazoid]

If you're using Activestate perl on Windows, run the script with wperl.exe which is in the perl/bin directory. If you're not using Activestate, there are other ways to do it, just Google it

 

[JD9955]

ok thanks ,, got it.

i used wperl for the main console, and then the following code for the child processes:



BEGIN {
Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0)
if defined &Win32::SetChildShowWindow
};




thanks

JD