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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: THings I would like to see in the CLI...
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Date: 25 Jan 91 15:24:51 GMT
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In article <4487@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna) writes:
>...can you have background tasks [on the Amiga]??
     Yes.

>In Unix you could do a rm * & and then go on to do something else.  Can you do
>something similiar in the CLI?
     run delete #?
     ...is the Amiga equivalant. RUN means "launch another CLI to execute the
following command."
     There's also rm for the Amiga, I think. I've got ls, didn't bother with
rm - just put in an alias so that "rm" invokes "delete."
                                                             - R'ykandar.
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