Simon Baxter wrote: > Hi. > > I've written a script which encodes vdr files into an avi file, and is > called from the reccmds.conf menu. > > Problem is, it ties up the system until the script has completed, which > can be a very long time. > > I gather the command executed must complete and output from the command > gets sent to the OSD. I was hoping to get reccmds to call the script in > the background and then use svdrp to send status messages to the OSD. > > The cutinplace script manages this, but my C programming isn't up to the > task! > > How can I get a command called in reccmds to execute in the background?? > echo "your command" | at now Regards.