W_TROIA@upr1.upr.cun.edu (Paolo V. Troia) (10/25/90)
Is there any way I could set a queue in my Amiga to which one would
submit tasks to be run? The different tasks would then be run sequentially
and at whatever priority the user had assigned to the queue. I would like
to be able to submit several tasks to the queue at a time and have the system
process them in the background at a reduced priority while I use the rest of
the systems resources for other tasks (Thank god for multitasking!).
My rationale is that it would be more desirable to have the system run
these tasks sequentially rather that trying to have them all running
simultaneously in the background. I realize I can specify tasks priorities
individually for all the different processes, but it would be convenient if
there were a way to queue the tasks...
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Paolo V. Troia w_troia@upr1.upr.clu.edu
University of Puerto Rico Phone: (809)834-3405
--------------------------------------------------------------------------jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS) (10/25/90)
In article <34477@nigel.ee.udel.edu> W_TROIA@upr1.upr.cun.edu (Paolo V. Troia) writes: > > Is there any way I could set a queue in my Amiga to which one would >submit tasks to be run? The different tasks would then be run sequentially The simple method is to use the CLI's type-ahead feature to queue the tasks there. Or use a script/batch file. Use the ChangeTaskPri command to lower the priority before starting, and fire up a new CLI to continue doing other things. -- John Meissen .............................. Oregon Advanced Computing Institute jmeissen@oacis.org (Internet) | "That's the remarkable thing about life; ..!sequent!oacis!jmeissen (UUCP) | things are never so bad that they can't jmeissen (BIX) | get worse." - Calvin & Hobbes
navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) (10/25/90)
In article <34477@nigel.ee.udel.edu> W_TROIA@upr1.upr.cun.edu (Paolo V. Troia) writes: > > Is there any way I could set a queue in my Amiga to which one would >submit tasks to be run? The different tasks would then be run sequentially >and at whatever priority the user had assigned to the queue. I would like It's in there, some folks call it "run" :) Seriously, try this: run changetaskpri -1 + echo "hello" + echo "there" Notice the plus at the end of each line, except the last. Will that do? :) David Navas navas@sim.berkeley.edu "Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought." -me