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Subject: Posting of CSNEWS 'AMIGA' discussion, entry #193.
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 10:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 10:35:00 1987
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ORIGINAL_POSTER: ("" <C0321@UNIVSCVM>) 
      I have spent a most frustrating week-end trying to get

tasks spawned under program control.  The documented
call AddTask() in the RKM v.1 does not work properly
on my machine.
    As a matter of fact, CreateProc() doesn't work either.
In the case of the AddTask() call, I get a Guru alert.  In
the case of the CreateProc() call, aboslutely nothing happens.
    After the CreateProc() goes to completion with a non-zero
return, the associated task state is 8, not defined in the RKM.
Anybody know what state this is?
    Is or has anybody had any luck using either of these two
functions?  Does anyone know for a fact that the RKM is in
error?  (I got my set of manuals way back when Commodore first
released them, not the later Addison-Wesley publications)
    Also, does LoadSeg return the address of the first instruction
of the loaded program, or does it return something else?  If it
returns something else, how do you get the first instruction from
that.
    Lastly, an observation -- the call FindTask() returns a pointer
to a struct Process.  The first element of a Process is a struct
Task, but the Process information is all there for you to look at.
     
                                Mitch