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Old 03-26-2010, 10:19 AM   #19
chaley
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Originally Posted by dwanthny View Post
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start web2disk http://uncle-rods.blogspot.com  -r 0 |more
start ebook-convert index.xhtml unclerod.epub --authors "Rod Mollise" --author-sort "Mollise, Rod" --cover "http://skywatch.brainiac.com/astroland/rodnow.jpg"
Interesting. It seems that the 'start' command creates a new process then executes the specified command in it, which would isolate a command's strange behavior. My guess is that Windows 7 automatically starts subprocesses, which is why I don't have the problem.

There is one experiment I would like to try, but I don't have access to an XP machine. My assumption is that the '|more' is there to ensure that the next 'start' does not execute until the first one finishes. I imagine that it works because the 'more' would execute under the control of the original cmd processor. What I wonder is whether using 'start /wait web2disk ...' without piping the output through 'more' would do the same thing. If someone with XP has the time and inclination, could you try it and post the results?
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