help: shell, or running external program

[Nitrous2006]

i'm trying to run an external program, i'm using linux FB
i'm making an easy WEP cracking tool that uses aircrack, if you've
ever used it you know it needs to run to collect packets sent by the
target, but i need it to also switch back to my program and execute more commands WHILE STILL RUNNING other commands....

SHELL transfers control, RUN does also, and so does EXEC...

...so is there a command that allows external programs running parallel to each other while in a terminal? this is a terminal(text mode program)....

please help!!!

[j_milton]

in windows you can use shell with the "start" command to do this, but I don't know of a linux equivalent, but you could try "&", not sure...
shell ("./some_executable &")

[Nitrous2006]

i've looked everywhere... apparently there is no way of executing a command and returning to my program. so i'm going to make my program write a script from the data gathered by the user, and then shell a new terminal that executes my script, returning back to my program, while having the newly created one still running nice and neatly in a seperate window.

[AGS]

i've looked everywhere... apparently there is no way of executing a command and returning to my program. so i'm going to make my program write a script from the data gathered by the user, and then shell a new terminal that executes my script, returning back to my program, while having the newly created one still running nice and neatly in a seperate window.

There is spawnl, spawnle, spawnlpe etc.... They're in PATH_TO_FBC/inc/crt/win32/process.bi. On Linux it will be somewhere else (/inc/crt/linux/process.bi?) but the content of the file will be the same.

Specify P_NOWAIT to make the spawned program start without blocking the application that called spawn.

http://qnxcs.unomaha.edu/help/product/n ... pawnl.html