Spawn another program and continue

conleysl

I want my lua script to start another ".exe" program, for example notepad.exe and continue without waiting for the other program to finish.
sys.cmd pauses my lua script until the other program terminates.

Is this possible? If so, please post an example using "notepad.exe" as the other program.

thanks.

ruby

os.execute('start notepad')

Samir

ruby os.execute('start notepad')

Yes or using sys.cmd("start notepad").
Here the Windows start command throws a new process without blocking the current program.

conleysl

Thank you