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From: hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX for Amiga
Summary: mutitasking scripts
Keywords: Arexx spawn
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Date: 23 Jun 89 21:35:03 GMT
Expires: 30 Jun 89 05:00:00 GMT
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	The problem with using Arexx as the system control language for
the amiga is that it will not 'locally' multitask.  So I'm forced to
use:

	Address Command "run rx junk.rexx ..."

And this opens up a newcli (no problem to those people who have mass
storage).

	What I would perfer is a 'SPAWN' command which works just like
INTERPRET, but returns immediately after setting up the string in a
separate process.

	i.e.
SPAWN(expresion,input file,output file).

If either the input or output is null, and the other is not a CLI, then
open up a CLI.


	 ,,,	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu
	<@,@>	"Any sufficiently advanced government is
	 \-/	 indistinguishable from anarchy."