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Running the Preprocessor in the Background

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You can run the FORTRAN preprocessor in the background, a practice useful for jobs that take a long time to complete. Running a job in the background frees the terminal for performing other foreground processes. In the following example, any messages usually sent to the terminal are piped to the system printer:

   $ psqlfor -s -i myprogram | lp &
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