[Dxbase] dangling process

Sat Aug 11 10:45:07 EDT 2007

Wow, glad someone finally found the reason that DXBase stays loaded
sometimes.
I have also verified what Chris has found. DXBase does the same here. I have
wondered what caused this for several years and I think Jack has also. Maybe
now
that he knows what causes it, he can get it fixed and issue a patch for
DXBase 2007. 
73 de Tony, KD4K

-----Original Message-----
From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Chris Codella, W2PA
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:30 AM
To: DXBase List
Subject: [Dxbase] dangling process
I've found the "Programs" menu to be quite handy - but have discovered a
minor problem with it.
If I use it to start a program, then quit DXBase before closing that other
program, DXBase appears to close (the window vanishes), but the DXBase
process hangs around and prevents it from starting up again until I kill it
manually using the task manager. I can make it happen every time with three
different programs I start with the "Programs" menu. If I quit the spawned
program first, then quit DXBase, everything works fine.
The only thing I've seen (so far) that doesn't cause this problem is when I
use it to bring up a web page in Firefox. 
I tried to force it to background the external programs - I added a '&' 
to the end of the command line - but that causes various other problems
depending on the program. I also tried putting the '&' on the argument list
but it also caused problems.
It's a minor annoyance but probably is easy to fix.
73,
Chris, W2PA
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