[Jprogramming] Finding & expanding files

[David Mitchell]

Skip,

There is some documentation to be found by looking at the jtask.ijs script via 
this command:

open 'jtask'

In one of the windowing interfaces.

In general, they all use the Windows function CreateProcess:

"Creates a new process and its primary thread. The new process runs in the 
security context of the calling process."

fork and spawn execute a program directly.  shell uses the 'cmd' shell to 
execute programs or shell commands.
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David Mitchell

On 11/5/2011 0:38, Skip Cave wrote:
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> Several methods to run command-line tasks were mentioned previously in this
> thread, including spawn, fork, shell, and spawn_jtask_. The documentation
> was not clear on the differences between all these different verbs, so I
> attacked the problem by trial and error. Is there a doc somewhere, that
> explains when to use each of these nouns, and the pros and cons of each one?
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