[Dxbase] dangling process

Sat Aug 11 11:25:34 EDT 2007

This does NOT explain why dxbase hangs, when you do NOT use a "program"
item.
I will try the result you found though, if it is right, I am glad to see an
answer after 4 years
VE3WEJ
Dave Garber
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Codella, W2PA" <w2pa at arrl.net>
To: "DXBase List" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:30 AM
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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