how to avoid blocking side effect of a menu shell command

[Jenô Balaskó (IJ/ETH)]

Hi Scott,

It works fine on Solaris and on win2000 -> cygwin -> nedit 5.4

Thanks 
Attila

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at nedit.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at nedit.org]On
> Behalf Of Scott Tringali
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:00 PM
> To: General NEdit discussion list
> Subject: Re: how to avoid blocking side effect of a menu shell command
> 
> 
> Jenô Balaskó (IJ/ETH) wrote:
> 
> > I should execute a command 'xclearcase' from Shell menu.
> > I choosed dialog as output.
> > Unfortunately the control is blocked by this application until
> > it has been finished. Therefore the editing is stopped.
> 
> NEdit is waiting for the output to finish, as output to a 
> dialog is not 
> asynchronous.  If you don't care about the output, then this 
> will work:
> 
>    xclearcase >& /dev/null &
> 
> There is a bug in 5.4 and previos where you will still see the watch 
> cursor, but you can still type.  This is fixed in 5.5.
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