[REBOL] Re: Function "LAUNCH" - Usage questions
From: rpgwriter:yah:oo at: 7-Jun-2002 11:43
--- Gregg Irwin <[greggirwin--mindspring--com]> wrote:
> Hi Allesandro,
>
> <<
> I was very interested to the function "launch" (I
> didn't know it).
>
> But I didn't find enought documentation about it.
> Can someone tell me more about launch refiniments?
> (this function could
> be used to simulate a multiprocessing system!).
> >>
>
> Launch is fairly limited in practice because you
> can't use it from within your scripts, only at the
> console. It's handy, yes, but not for deployment
> purposes. For that you need to have View/Pro or
> /Command and use CALL or a native OS function.
I thought 'launch could be used by a script if it was
called directly from the REBOL command line, but was
not usable (or predictable, maybe) in scripts
themselves launched by other scripts, from the console
prompt, or from view icons.