-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Bookmark Converter Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: Command line returns when not finished started by Oliver Betz
Posted by: Oliver Betz on Jan. 27 2004,12:14
Hello,
executing Bookmark Converter from the command line, it returns immediately, prior to completion.
I dislike this. "start" is the right way to run an application as a separate task.
Consider that somebody wants to copy the resulting file after the sync, e.g. vie FTP - how shall the caller know when Bookmark Converter is ready?
Oliver
P.S.: no offence meant - Bookmark Converter seems to be the best (only?) solution to do a real sync!
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Jan. 27 2004,17:43
This "shell return before program termination" is a property of the operating system rather than the individual software, and is in turn related to the multitasking nature of Windows GUI programs. The exact same thing will happen for any GUI program (i.e. non-pure terminal based) in Windows.
There are third party tools that can be used to batch GUI programs too though, you should be able to find them at shareware sites.
And I'm glad you like the sync feature.
Posted by: Oliver Betz on Jan. 27 2004,18:02
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Hello Magnus,
I didn't realize that even from the command line and with -silent it's still a GUI app.
Nevertheless I think it would be very useful to have a command line version waiting until termination.
Maybe you can add a hint to the docs how to achieve this.
Oliver
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