On Sun, 10 May 2009 22:04:09 +0200, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
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> Under Unix, you can type a shell command and end it with "&" (IIRC), and  
> it runs in the background. Is there any way of doing this under Windows?

As far as I know there is no way to run several concurrent processes in a  
single command window, but you can use the "start" command to give the new  
process its own window.


> Also, Unix as "sudo". Does Windows have anything similar?

Yes, "runas".


> (I just discovered that on Vista, you can't install Haskell packages  
> because the installer doesn't have permission to write the files. But  
> how the hell do you *give* it permission??)

Right-click the installer and select "Run as administrator".


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FE

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