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               RUNNING EXTERNAL PROGRAMS FROM AMOS
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Just a quick note to let you know that on this disk is a directory util
that I think is superb. And not only that you can run it from within Amos
using the Amiga`s multitasking ability.

How many times have you been working on a project only to find that when
you want to save it off, all your work disks are full? Normally you would
have to start deleting files by hand, what a pain! What about shifting files
on to other disks reading power packed doc files, quick formatting of disks
etc. etc.
Well now you can use a small routine called Filemaster.Amos 
(in the Source drawer on this disk) to run FILEMASTER as an external program.
Now, when you need to delete a file or read a doc all you have to do is
press the right Amiga key and the A key and you will be instantly inside
Filemaster. When you have finished your tasks just press La A again and you
skip back to Amos to continue with what you was doing.
You can run any program that you have memory for, in fact I am typing this
article in Edword V2.2 whilst multitasking with Amos, when I have finished
I can just quit Edword to go back to Amos, different programs have different
ways of getting back and some programs knock out Amos. Just experiment with
your favourite utils. You can often have several programs all in memory at
once waiting for your attention.  Using this system will utterly transform
the way you develop your programs in Amos and save you hours of switching
off and booting up a util then re-booting Amos.

Okay, I confess I do not understand fully about why one program works and
another won`t but this hasn`t stopped me taking advantage of this system.
You have a brilliant programming language and a fantastic multitasking
computer why not use it?
By the way some of the above information may only apply to Amos original 
and the A1200, but I don`t see why it should not work on almost any system
or version of Amos. Also multitasking can slow down Amos, but won't affect
your compiled version of course.

Load in Filemaster.Amos and read the comments in the listing.
If you want to decrunch the power packed source code on this disk then do
this:

1) Load Amos

2) Load Filemaster.amos@1

3) put Amoszine in DF0: and run Filemaster.Amos

4) When returned back to Amos hold down the left Amiga key and press A.

5) Click on Amoszine at the top of the left column to get a dir listing.

6) Open the Source_code drawer by double clicking on it.

7) Go to the right colunm and double click on Ram Disk (or DF1:)

8) Go back and Select a file to decrunch (Any file with .PP on the end)

9) Click on it once to highlight it.

10) Press the Space Bar to show menu 2.

11) Now click on DECRUNCH.

12) Press Left Amiga A to return to Amos.

13) Load in the decrunched file.
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You can mow treat the source code as normal.

Steve Bye.