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Re: Run[] in background (NT)?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg25483] Re: Run[] in background (NT)?
• From: "Peter Meulbroek" <meulbroek at wag.caltech.edu>
• Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:27:01 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

What about the old standbyes:
1)  create a shortcut to the app, and request that it startup as a minimized
application (settable under the "properties" of the shortcut).  This works
for
Run["c:\\temp\\notepad.exe.lnk"] where notepad.exe.lnk is a shortcut to
notepad, set as above.

2) call the program from a vbscript, where you can specify the options of
the call to the executable using the "WshShell.Run" method, specifying
either a minimized or a hidden application.


What's desired here is to instigate a call to "CreateProcess(Ex)" with
appropriate flags.  If the target application supports the nCmdShow flag of
WinMain, you're golden.


"P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com> wrote in message
news:8r6nvq$t6r at smc.vnet.net...
> On 29 Sep 2000, Tom Aldenberg wrote:
>
> > I run a batch shell script from Mathematica:
> > Run["c:\acsl\math\amath.exe (+options)"]. How can I do that in the
> > background under NT without the acslmath program taken over the
> > screen?
>
> Under its current implementation, there is no way to suppress the console
> window produced by invoking Run[].
>
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> P.J. Hinton
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