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- From: Bjarne Pohlers <bjarne@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: exec in mint.cnf
- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 93 11:21:34 +0200
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- |>I tried to use the exec command to start a program that waits for GEM. I
- |>discovered that "exec" starts a program with Pexec-mode "0". Wouldn't it be
- |>good thing to have a command that starts programs with Pexec-mode "100"??
- No, I do not think that this is a good idea. If you want to run your
- program in the background, it is easyly done by starting it with the
- `bg'-command (MiNT-utilities...). On the other hand you may want to
- start some programs like fsck - and MiNT does have to wait for them.
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- Bjarne
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