Is their any way I can use run to start multiple files at once, then have the script wait for completion of those programs before continuing on?

Basically i am spawning several instances of a file copy program and I want to do them at the same time to save time. However, later in the script I also have those directories replicating to another server that is kicked off by command line. As of right now, I can run all my copying at the same time, but the replication kicks off because I issued run commands for the copying. This hoses things up because the copying has not completed yet. I really hope I don't have to use shell to copy those files, that will take a long time..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Brent

then in the main script make a do until loop that looks something like this:

DO
sleep 5
UNTIL EXIST("COPYTOKEN1.TXT") AND EXIST("COPYTOKEN2.TXT") AND EXIST("COPYTOKEN3.TXT")

this should do the trick !!!

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Lon Geefshuysen,
www.xs4all.nl/~longeef/NT/KiXtart
lon_geefshuysen@essentium.com

That is the part that seems to be failing me.

Brent

This theory should work, but i can't seem to find the files it creates.

echo token1 > copytoken1.txt
(in the main script you need to delete these copytoken files before starting the copy command batch files !!)