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On 12/05/2011 10:45, vijay swaminathan wrote:
>
> I tried using that as well.
> The problem is, the thread becomes dead as soon as it executes the
> invocation of command prompt.

Can you post the code you're using, please?

This should be simple so maybe you've misunderstood
something in the threading / subprocess mix.

TJG