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From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Running processes in the background...
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 09:42:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 09:42:02 1987
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I need help with the following task.  I'd like to be able to start a process
in the background, and have some emacs-lisp code executed after it finishes.
For example, consider a version of shell-command that returned immediately
after creating a background process to run the shell-command, but popped
up a window with the results of the shell-command after the command
terminated.  Calling call-process with buffer = 0 runs the process in the
background, but also throws away the output of the process; also, you can't
specify lisp code to be executed after the process does terminate.

Can someone tell me how to do this?  Thanx in advance.

-- Ashwin.

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