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From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Writing programs for background tasks
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Date: 20 Aug 90 08:05:29 GMT
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I have absolutely no idea from your original article what language you
are programming in. But, if you are using Manx Aztec C (my version is 3.6a),
a feature was provided to supply this capability. First, you declare four
long integers at the beginning of your program:

long _stack=<value>; /* size of stack to use, 0 to use current CLI value */
long _priority=<value>; /* priority to run at (normally 0) */
long _BackGroundIO=<value>; /* nonzero if output to CLI console is needed */
char *_procname="<name>"; /* string containing name of the new process */

You then link detach.o to your program, which takes care of detaching your
program from it's initial CLI, optionally running it in the background.

                                  Michael Griffith
                                  griffith@eecs.ee.pdx.edu
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                                  "Say, 'I will not program in Pascal.'"