home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!raven.alaska.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u16244
- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:10:00 CST
- From: David James Alexander Hanley <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93022.001000U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: XCOPY in the background ? Get OS/2?
- References: <1jn040INN95i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1jnmd4INNcmn@news.gac.edu>
- Lines: 24
-
- In article <1jnmd4INNcmn@news.gac.edu>, Anonymous U says:
- >
- >John Villalovos writes
- >DOS-programs
- >> >in the background (multitasking), so I can work in the foreground with
- >another
- >> >program. (like in UNIX: 'command &' runs 'command' in the background)
- >> >I would prefer a unit or program in Pascal or a already compiled program.
- >>
- >> Get OS/2.
- >
- >But does OS/2 have a feature like 'command &' in UNIX, so you don't have to
- >switch to another shell window to do something else?
-
- Yep. detach xxxxx runs xxxxx in the background.
- Really handy for copying files, doing a MAKE, or even deleting batches
- of files...
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
- He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for
- protection to his own" - Thomas Jefferson, 1814
-
- SEND E-MAIL TO : hanley1@earth.eecs.uic.edu
-