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  48     dc:title="Starting a process without the DOS box"
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  50     dc:subject="General Electric"
  51     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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  58                      <h2 class="date-header">August 18, 2010</h2>
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  61                         <h3 class="entry-header">Starting a process without the DOS box</h3>
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  64                               <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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  67 set sh = wscript.createobject ("wscript.shell")
  68 sh.run "cqperl \\hcu-g97pnd1\Software\diffbl\bin\diffbl.pl", 0, false
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