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- Run (V1.3 in c:) (2.x/3.x internal)
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- NAME
- Run - spawn a background shell or process.
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- SYNOPSIS
- Run command+command+command+command....
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- DESCRIPTION
- Run is used to startup a background shell. Run
- itself does no parsing of the command line, it passes it
- unchanged to the background shell process, which means
- that depending on the shell you have loaded, you can do
- various interesting things with Run.
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- You can pass multiple commands to the background
- shell by terminating each commandline with a '+' before
- you hit return.
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- To detach processes from the parent console window,
- you can do Run >NIL:. This will allow you to close the
- CLI window from which that task was launched. Once RUN a
- program is totally seperated from the Shell from which it
- was RUN allowing you to use that Shell for other
- purposes. If any errors occur, the background program
- removes itself and disappears.
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- After you RUN a program, the system shell will print
- the message [CLI n] where n is the task number assigned
- to the background task.
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- The system will always check the resident list before
- looking in the system path for the command.
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- EXAMPLES
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- 1. Run Copy Thisfile OverHere+
- Echo "Copy complete!"
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- The above line will cause the background shell to
- first run the Copy command, and then the Echo command.
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- 2. RUN EXECUTE "RAM:T/ThisFile"
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- The above line will cause the command sequence file
- 'ThisFile' in the Ram:T/ directory to execute in the
- background by a single task.
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- 3. RUN DIR > PRT: OPT A
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- This prints a directory and file listing of the
- current drive on the printer. This will be operated in
- the background so you will be able to continue entering
- other commands into the Shell it was run from or to close
- it.
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- 4. RUN >NIL: Calculator
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- This starts the Calculator program. NIL: is used so
- you can close the CLI or enter other commands into it
- while the Calculator is running.
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- 5. RUN FORMAT DRIVE DF1: NAME EMPTY +
- INSTALL DF1: +
- ECHO "Format and Install Finished"
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- This will Format and Install a disk in df1: and then
- print a message saying "Format and Install Finished".
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