From: Wurzel Cidermaker <wurzelcidermaker@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T00:28:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-blocking 'gets' ?

Stephen Ware wrote:
> Wow, that is quite complex.  Thank you!
> 
> I also managed to discover another usable method: run a 'system' command 
> in a new thread.  That seems to release the blocking on gets by creating 
> a second process, and as far as I can tell will work on both Windows and 
> *nix.  The downside is that the two processes can't really communicate 
> with each other much, but in my case I don't need them to.
> 
> Thanks everyone for you help :)

Stephen,

Can you please provide a very simple 'system' command example as I'm 
having the same problem.
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