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- From: rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle)
- Subject: Re: Startup problems?
- Organization: Land Mobile Products Sector, Motorola Inc.
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:07:29 GMT
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- In article <HiwwTB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> bbs.zio@tsoft.sf-bay.org (James Elkinton) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- >Isn't that what RUNBACK is for? Just substitute RUNBACK for RUN. All
- >good BBSes and FTP sites should have a runback available. I depend on
- >that little command constantly.
-
- Under 2.04 and beyond, runback is not needed any more.
- 'run <nil: >nil:' is a good replacement whenever you see runback.
-
- For whatever it is worth, I deleted runback over a year ago and made
- an alias for runback so that all the scripts, etc. that I had with
- runback in them would still work.
-
- Loren
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