Hello all. Happy to announce the release of "after" v0.8.1 After includes the "after" command line utility which allows one to wait until a process in another terminal window ends before starting one locally. ex: $ after long_process rm temp_file or the like. It has proven quite useful to me especially in the windows world that doesn't have as flexible of a "background process" for command line apps. Enjoy! -roger http://github.com/rdp/after recent changes: 0.8.0 make prettier output make it so it can enumerate all processes: ($ after -l) make -v mode (more chatty) by default, add option -q for those that want no output -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.