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#134092From: Scott BallantyneJul 10, 1988 10:36 PM
<SIGH> This all sounds familiar, Ben. As I said before, give me a two or twenty line C program that will run a C: program, such as TYPE or Echo from either CLI or Workbench, sending it's output to a file specified by the parent, and where it makes no difference whether the parent or the child terminates first. If there is a problem with spawning the child, the parent should *tell me about it*. That is real multitasking power, the greatest strength of the Amiga IMHO, and it is only possibly (to my knowledge) with arp.library, currently. That is something (not the only thing) new that arp has brought to the amiga, something that most folks have been yelling about since Kickstart V29.
#134099From: Black Belt SystemsJul 10, 1988 11:38 PM
Well, guess you haven't looked to closely at ARexx, then, because ARexx can do it just fine… Either from a script, or, you can invoke your c: command VIA arexx from a executing program that was written in c or modula or whatever. Same principal, probably – the library is managing the streams, not the program. So. There, I showed you one. <grin>
#134099From: Black Belt SystemsJul 10, 1988 11:38 PM
Well, guess you haven't looked to closely at ARexx, then, because ARexx can do it just fine… Either from a script, or, you can invoke your c: command VIA arexx from a executing program that was written in c or modula or whatever. Same principal, probably – the library is managing the streams, not the program. So. There, I showed you one. <grin>