can i run an existing command from BAS Progam?

[Magi Ancient]

I'm working on a set of startup routines using AUTORUN.BAS.

I want to run a seperate program and then, maybe conditionally, return...

kinda like background proc i guess...

Any way to call a program/command from within a BASIC file?

thx :D

[Magi Ancient]

for example:

```

rem *** program/command launcher test thingie ***

cls

myroutine:

    ink 3

    print "Starting the other program..."

    pause 30

    othprog1.bas

end

goto myroutine

end

```

[Daniel Barry]

Hello Magi Ancient,

> kinda like background proc i guess...

MikeOS doesn't support multiple running processes to my knowledge. I did experiment with my own multitasking realtime OS years ago using a 'yield' function, it's a bit of a pain - there are better ways to do it.

>     othprog1.bas

It's worth checking out the documentation: https://mikeos.sourceforge.net/handbook-appdev-basic.html

Specifically the "include" keyword might be interesting to use:

> Appends another BASIC file onto the end of the current one, so that you can call routines in it. RAMSTART is updated accordingly.

You'll probably need to build out some kind of function structure on your subroutines so that you can send them data and get data back.

In your included files, just make sure that you have some kind of convention too, otherwise your subroutines will match, like:

    othprog1_init:

Kind Regards,

Dan

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[Michael Saunders]

Hi Magi,

Dan Barry's answer is right. There's no way to do it as another BASIC
program would overwrite the current one, so there'd be nothing to
return to. Try the INCLUDE approach that he mentioned though!

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