IO_PRIORITY

Syntax	IO_PRIORITY level (level=1 to 1000)
Location	SMS

This command is used to set the priority of the In / Out retry operations. This means that it affects the amount of time that the scheduler will spend retrying IN / OUT operations (such as INKEY$ or PRINT). Due to the QL’s multitasking abilities, it is possible that a program can be running in the background whilst you are doing something else. If that program is trying to access a file or the Network port for example, then it may find that there is no information waiting to be read at the time and the scheduler will keep trying to access the file or Network until that information is received. By using this command to set a higher priority, the scheduler will allocate more time to doing this and less time to running another job. IO_PRIORITY 1is equivalent to the way in which the scheduler worked on the original QL ROM.