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> Does the prompt handler (CLI) do multitasking?
> In otherwords if a new task is started and control
> returns to the CLI will the new task ever run?
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> I think I am asking whether it calls PAUSE in
> a loop while waiting for user input?
Yes, indeed it does. But the catch is that if you're NOT
in the CLI and spinning on something, you don't get
anything else done (DUH!)
Steve, you sound like you know multitasking issues. Sorry if
what I said in a previous post implied otherwise.
We need users like you to test the limits of pbForth and then
help me to stretch the bounaries further out.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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