& - Dokumentation						(03/09-1997)
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Short instruction
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  & ? - Well ?!

To start a command as a  background-process,  you have to use under  Unix or
Linux this psychedallic Letter.  On the Amiga-WB you have the "RUN"-Command,
which is very similar to the Unix-version, but last has a very big advantage

  This advantage is that the unix-system tells you, the user, about finished
tasks, which were started with "&"-Letter. So this feature I want to have on
the amiga too,  ofcoz' as I splitted some archives I wanted to know when the
tasks were finished,  but I had to look with the  "status full"-command  for
the  tasks,  which disapeared in the list to tell me,  that their  tasks was
done. This was very boring and unpractable. :-(

  Under unix-system you have to add the  &-char  behind the  command-string,
like "split -b1432576 archiv.tar archiv. &".  On the  Amiga I have to change
the commandline-interpreter to accept this,  so I decided to use the prefix-
notation,  due starting the command-string with the &-letter  (like the run-
command from the wb) :-)

Usage:
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  Usage: & [<[+/-]priority>] <command with parameters>

           the priority must be leaded by a '-' or a '+', even 0, like '+0'.

Just simple, eh?! Examples:

  1.> & lha -r a multiview.lha multiview
  1.> & split -b1453222 multiview.lha archiv.
  1.> & +1 play16 files:cd5/samples/rn4_tr5.wav
  1.> & ibrowse http://home.pages.de/~yannick

  etc. :-)

Copyright
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  This software has no copyright. its documentation and the included source-
code are set to public domain. Everybody can do with it, what he wants to do
with it.  The manual was written by me,  but everybody can search for errors
and correct them :-)

History:
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  0.96:	Public release for the Aminet

  more releases ?? - I dont know, this software works perfectly, so it does
not need any updates, except the way of existing 2 files for this, maybe I
want to include this in one file, but at the moment i find 2 files okay.