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From: tll@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.technical
Subject: HELP with Independant Children Processes
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.171549.28531@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 17:15:49 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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I have the following requiremnts:

A parent process that starts up children processes and waits for them
before continuing.  The child might require up to 50 arguments.  These
arguments concatenated togther could total 1000 characters.  The parent
needs to know if the child succeeded or failed (ie. returns 0 if okay,
anything else if failed).  Here's the catch the child must be an independant
program capable of being run on its own from CLI (just like COPY, MAKEDIR, etc.)

Which Amiga function will I need to call in the parent program to start up
the child to accomplish this?  It can be either 1.3 or 2.0.  

Does anybody know the string length limit for the 2.0 System() call?  Is it the
same as a CLI command 256?

Thanks in advance,

Tal Lancaster
tll@tybalt.caltech.edu