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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Execute() and stack size....
Message-ID: <20078@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 03:30:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.204707.4098@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <1991Mar24.204707.4098@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Anarchy for Peace) writes:
>Does anybody have any information on how to launch an application with
>a large stack using the routines in dos.library?  I am trying to launch a
>raytracer (rayshade 4.0) from my program with a large stack (~800000)
>but I can't seem to get it.

	Execute("stack 80000\nrayshade blah...",...)

>Someone around before mentioned a call called "System()" but my AmigaDOS
>manual has nothing about this...  What does it do and what does it have to
>offer?

	It's a far more useful replacement for Execute() in 2.0.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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