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  25     dc:title="Starting a process without the DOS box"
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  28     dc:description="I needed to start a process which had it&apos;s own window (a Perl/Tk app called diffbl.pl which I have yet to document over on ClearSCM). I want to start this process and not have that silly DOS window hanging around...."
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  66                               <p>I needed to start a process which had it's own window (a Perl/Tk app called diffbl.pl which I have yet to document over on ClearSCM). I want to start this process and not have that silly DOS window hanging around. Normally I'd use Cygwin's run.exe but I cannot be assured that Cygwin will be on the users Windows box. How to start a windowed application sans the DOS box?</p>
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  69 set sh = wscript.createobject ("wscript.shell")
  70 sh.run "cqperl \\hcu-g97pnd1\Software\diffbl\bin\diffbl.pl", 0, false
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