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Terrabyte has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can I launch many instances of the same program from within a perl script. An example would be starting 10 instances of calc on the Win32 platform. When I use system, it waits for a response. When I use exec, it shifts to calc. If I fork, I just start myself again. Help!!!!

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