note
sgifford
You could try having a very small perl script which simply ran:
<code>
system(1,"/path/to/real/script.pl");
</code>
On Windows, the leading <code>1</code> should cause the script to run in the background, and your foreground script can immediately exit. Untested, but worth a try anyways...
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