[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Batch Mode Displaying Icon In Taskbar

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It sounds like what you are trying to achieve is the behavior of a daemon process. This would be an "invisible" (at least to the task bar) process that runs in the background. PDSOE does this by running a regular prowin in the background. You just have to be very careful about not creating any UI that would cause a window to be displayed. this means making sure all display and message statements are removed and sent to a log file instead. The upside of using -b is that the AVM will allow you to redirect standard out, but the trade off is the icon in the task bar.

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