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- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Startup problems?
- Message-ID: <Bxu9Ap.Bz3@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:23:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.085833.16283@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> <1d67g0INNnks@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> <Bx7KMu.DnG@news.cs.andrews.edu>
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- In article <Bx7KMu.DnG@news.cs.andrews.edu> adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:
- >In article <1d67g0INNnks@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> rickt@tcom.stc.co.uk (Rick Tait) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov3.085833.16283@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk (Gaz) writes:
- >>|> I am relatively new to using the Amiga for programming and I have a question
- >>|> that I hope someone out there can answer for me, so here goes.
- >>|>
- >
- >[stuff deleted about using runback with mackie]
- >
- >>|> My question is this the correct way to do something like this or is there a better
- >>|> way, I know it works but is it just a hack to get round something simple that I
- >>|> Thanks Gary.
- >>
- >>How about:
- >> run <NIL: >NIL: mackie
- >>before the EndCLI in your startup-sequence?
- >>
- >
- >Sorry Rick, this isn't going to work as run doesn't detach from the CLI.
- >What Gary wanted was someway of detaching mackie from the CLI so the CLI
- >would close after the endcli command. WHat you described would only run
- >mackie in the background and take input from the nil device and redirect
- >all output to the nil device but doesn't detach from the cli.
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- Under 2.0+, when you RUN >NIL: <NIL:, run does indeed detach completely.
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