Background processing

[Kenn Baynton]

Greetings all, 

        As some of you may know, I am engaged in a conversion project to
move from OpenVMS/ Interbase 3.3J/ PH 7.1 to Win2K/ Oracle9i/ PH 8.41C.  I
have run into an issue that I hope the collective can help with.  

        I know both Unix and OpenVMS have queues, secondary process areas
that run in the background.  MSDos has no such functionality to my
knowledge.  I am trying to run a QUIZ report from a QUICK screen, but I
don't want the command process text to overlay the QUICK screen.  Does
anyone know a way to run a process in the background from Win2K/DOS?  It has
been suggested to me that Windows Scripting could probably run my process in
a separate DOS Command window, but I am unsure how to proceed.  If anyone
has done something like this, I would appreciate your input, and if
possible, a code sample.

Thanks 

Kenn Baynton