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From: bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Background Tasks.
Message-ID: <2787@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 17:12:33 GMT
References: <12450@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: bear@bucsb.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan)
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <12450@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> cknight@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (King Claudius) writes:
>
>Although it may have been discussed before...
>
>How do you start a program that runs itself in background but
>doesn't free the CLI?
>
>I've tried:
>	runback  --  crashes
>	run      --  crashes
>	>null: <null: -- doesn't work (device is mounted)
>	>nil: <nil:   -- doesn't work...
>
>So, will someone please tell me the secret?

Sounds like you have a bum copy of runback.  Or maybe you're
version is out of date with 1.3?

                                                 - Bear