Hey,

sorry about the lame arse title, my heads defitiate of any meaningful words due to previously writing 8,000 words in the space of 12hrs (must check of them, there probably utter bullshit)

anyway!

Yea I've got a processor intensive program that I want to run and get some data from, however I want to be able to run it a couple of times with different variables, but I want to be able to with a command or a script automatically detect when the last program exits and then kick off the new one.

so wanna do something like this -->

program1 runs ---takes time to compute--->exits ---->shell starts up program2


Can you think of a way to do this in both MS-DOS and also Linux, im planning on knocking together a cluster (clusterknoppix) in the next couple of days to compute something that normally takes 7hrs, but im going away so its a good oppurtunity to leave the computers running and getting me the data I want them to!

Cheers in advance, its more the linux way of doing things im interested in

thanks!

i2c