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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Summary: Even (shudder!) BASIC programmers can use multitasking!
Message-ID: <4805@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 88 19:52:19 GMT
References: <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <1378@husc2.UUCP> <492@.UUCP> <4645@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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In article <4645@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, J. A. Tainter (tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM)
writes:

> In article <492@.UUCP>, alex@.UUCP (Alex Laney) writes:
>> 
>> In article <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
>> writes:
>>> I can't think of *any* two tasks which I do on  my  home  machine
>>> which  take  enough  time to make m/p profitable, and which could
>>> co-exist sensibly with only two floppy drives.

[ rest deleted ]

I was debugging a fairly large BASIC program the other night, and ran
into a directory handling problem (I was using Carolyn Scheppner's code).
What I needed to do was to look at the file that was being produced,
but it is very difficult from BASIC.  And when I got out of BASIC to
do a TYPE ram:temp, my list window size was lost.

Easy solution (on an Amiga 2000, with lots of memory), is to open a
CLI window and push it to the background before starting up BASIC.
When I want to look at the output file, I just shove the BASIC window
to the back and there is the CLI prompt, staring me in the face.

Simple, even for simpletons.  And only on an Amiga.

					Steve Rice

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