Re: How to have PuTTY go in background only?

From: Simon Tatham (anakin@pobox.com)
Date: 02/14/02 

From: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
Date: 14 Feb 2002 09:16:54 +0000 (GMT)

Scott W Reeve <swr@TheWorld.com> wrote:
> I use plink with all of the options (user, password, port
> forwarding info, etc) and it works fine, but, like I said,
> it always brings up the window.

Plink doesn't do anything to explicitly bring up a console window.
Therefore, it seems likely that it would only do so if it needed to
_use_ that window somehow.

The most plausible explanation is that you haven't redirected
Plink's input or output - so it opens the console in order to have
somewhere to send its I/O to. Have you tried redirecting its input
and output handles to somewhere less prominent, such as pipes or the
null device? 

-- 
Simon Tatham         "That all men should be brothers is a
<anakin@pobox.com>    dream of people who have no brothers."

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