Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: aliases and RUN
Message-ID: <5187@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 18:43:39 GMT
References: <3496@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3496@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
>Another win of the unix way is that you can do things like
>	( command-1 ; command-2 )&
>and have two things happen in series in the background.  It takes some serious 
>contortions to do that on the Amiga.

All it takes is adding a plus sign to the end of each line, ie

run echo "hi there" +
echo "all of these commands" +
echo "are executing in the background" +
wait 3 mins

If you think of the  + CR  as  being similiar to the ; you will be
less confused.
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andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
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