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- Function: Lets the user change task priorities by giving the task name
- -------- with its associated priority. Note that the name is case
- sensitive and must be stated completely. CLI only.
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- Requirements: Any Amiga with Kickstart 1.3 or 2.0.
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- Author: Steve Anderson
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- Date: August 23, 1991
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- * This program and the accompanying source is freeware and can be used, *
- * altered and ripped however you like. Enjoy! *
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- Purpose:
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- Why does this program exist? Because it is needed. I often wanted to
- change the priorities of tasks, but the AmigaDOS ChangeTaskPri command will
- only let you alter the priorities of the current CLI (at least the 1.3
- version). Any other similar programs will only let you alter the pri's of
- active shells, not individual sub-tasks. The monitors like Amiga Realtime
- Monitor are great if you want to do it once, but what if you want to change
- the priority of a task permanently ... that's where TaskPri comes in.
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- For example, if you always want to boot up with 'RexxMaster' having
- a priority of 8 instead of 4, you would place the following command in your
- startup-sequence:
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- TaskPri RexxMaster 8
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- TaskPri can also handle different tasks with identical names. Say you
- wanted to change the priority of the second 'trackdisk.device' from 5 to
- 10, but leave the first one alone. Then use this command:
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- TaskPri trackdisk.device 5 trackdevice 10
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- In fact, you should be able to set the priorities of as many tasks as you
- like on the one command line, up to a limit of 60 tasks! And if you need
- more, just invoke TaskPri again! I doubt anyone will be running more than
- 60 tasks with the same name so this limit should be more than enough.
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- Template:
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- TaskPri ;*** displays all tasks and their priorities
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- TaskPri ? ;*** template/usage
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- TaskPri NAME PRI [ [NAME PRI] ... ] ;*** change task pri and show change
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- Info:
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- This program was typed in CygnusEd Professional, compiled with
- SAS/C v5.10a, and debugged with the CodeProbe Debugger all through an ARexx
- integrated environment. I would like to optimize the size by rewriting
- some of the routines in assembler, but that depends on time ...
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- If you have any questions, comments or ideas my address is;
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- Steve Anderson
- 58 GrayStone Drive
- Hamilton, Ontario
- L9C 4R8
- CANADA
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