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From: mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AmigaDOS from BASIC....
Message-ID: <730026@hpmwngf.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 90 01:17:26 GMT
Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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	Hi folks...

	I'm hoping to accomplish a few tasks with BASIC on the Amiga...
	I'm using HiSoft BASIC which is supposed to be fully compaitble with
	Amiga BASIC.... so if you have some AmigaBASIC techinques to share
	I would sure apprieciate them....

	I'd like to be able to launch programs from BASIC without killing
	the BASIC program.  I have used the CHAIN and the RUN commands, which
	work fine, except BASIC closes all it's open files and windows and
	just basically bows out.

	The other thing I'd like to do is to have BASIC read a directory...
	If I could just call the DIR command and re-direct it into a file
	in ram: I'd be o.k.  But that brings us back to the first problem
	of launching a program....

	Pleezzze  help.....   

	-Mike Powell-