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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
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Subject: Re: question/buggestion about gnuemacs' call-process<f>
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 20:10:40 EDT
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Forget about that last question. I figured out how to get the equivalent of
having call-process return exit status by starting the process with
start-process and using a process-sentinel to tell me the exit status when the
process finishes. In addition, the process now runs as if it were in the
background, which is even better since gnuemacs doesn't freeze while the
process is running.

Many thanks to Dale Worley for his response to Ashwin Ram's query about
processes... his pointer to set-process-sentinel is exactly the hint I
needed.

-- Niels.