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- From: Anonymous U
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: XCOPY in the background ? Get OS/2?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:33:08 GMT
- Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College
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- John Villalovos writes
- DOS-programs
- > >in the background (multitasking), so I can work in the foreground with
- another
- > >program. (like in UNIX: 'command &' runs 'command' in the background)
- > >I would prefer a unit or program in Pascal or a already compiled program.
- >
- > Get OS/2.
-
- But does OS/2 have a feature like 'command &' in UNIX, so you don't have to
- switch to another shell window to do something else?
- --
- "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
- does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss,
- the abyss also looks into you." -- Nietzsche
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