Lower(V37)                                             Lower(V37)


FORMAT
       LOWER [BY value] [STACK size] [COMMAND] command line

TEMPLATE
       BY/K/N,STACK/K/N,COMMAND/F/A

PURPOSE
       To run a command at a nice, possibly lower, priority.

SPECIFICATION
       Since  the Amiga is multitasking, it uses priority numbers
       to determine the order in which current  tasks  should  be
       serviced.   Normally, most tasks have a priority of 0, and
       the time and instruction cycles of  the  CPU  are  divided
       equally among them.

       LOWER  executes the specified command line with the prior-
       ity lowered by value.  If no  BY  option  is  specified  a
       default value of 1 is used.  If a negative value is speci-
       fied the priority will be raised instead.   The  resulting
       priority  will  be between -128 and +10.  This is enforced
       silently.

       The STACK option sets the stack size of the command to  be
       executed.  Default is to use the current stack size.

       The command line is any valid shell command line; i.e., it
       is possible to use redirection, aliases, resident commands
       etc.

       LOWER leaves the value of the executed command in the con-
       dition flags RC and Result2.

EXAMPLE
       To print the file Text at lower priority, type:
           1> LOWER COPY Text TO PRT:

SEE ALSO
       CHANGETASKPRI(AmigaDOS), STACK(AmigaDOS)

AUTHOR
       Torsten Poulin (torsten@diku.dk)

UNRESTRICTIONS
       LOWER is free; anyone may redistribute copies of LOWER  to
       anyone  under  the  terms stated in the GNU General Public
       Licence, a copy of which accompanies each copy of LOWER.

       Torsten Poulin encourages you to improve and extend LOWER,
       and  urges  that  you  contribute  your  extensions to the
       world.


Lower version 37.2       13 February 1993