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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: BUG in RUN command .. the worst kind
Message-ID: <1424@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 12:28:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 30 12:28:23 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 22:17:13 EDT
References: <8604192214.AA10951@cory> <294@ulowell.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <294@ulowell.UUCP> page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) writes:
>Recently, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) wrote:
>>	That IDIOT *!#@$% RUN command sets the process priority of the 
>>process it's running to -5!!!!
>
>That seems pretty logical to me.  If I say 'I want this in the
>background', to me it means 'do it, no hurry.'

But to me, it means 'do it as fast as you can, meanwhile I'll kill some time
doing something else.'  Really, the process priority should be an optional
parameter to RUN, defaulting to 0.

	Charles Poirier