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From: walker@unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Writing programs for background tasks
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.195332.1011@unx.sas.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 19:53:32 GMT
References: <3066@orbit.cts.com>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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In article <3066@orbit.cts.com> bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
>I want to have a program start up from the CLI, but after it has started, I
>want the CLI to be able to terminate, even though the program has not
>completed.  How can I do this?  Is it documented in the RKM's or in any of
>the Amiga programming books?
>

You can do this in Lattice C (or SAS/C) by linking your program with the
cback.o startup instead of c.o.  If you're using SAS/C or Lattice C, check
out the docs on cback.o.


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