PRIO

Syntax	PRIO priority
Location	PRIO

This command sets the priority of the current job to the given priority. Priority must range from 0 to 127.

Example

Multitasking jobs waiting for a keypress or anything else to be activated slow down the whole system although they are actually doing nothing. A job which is waiting (perhaps for a certain amount of time) for input could set its own priority to one, and then when it is able to continue, reset to a higher priority value.

NOTE

If a job has priority 0 it will not be able to run. Other tasks may however set that job’s priority (eg. with SPJOB and allow it to continue).

CROSS-REFERENCE

SPJOB, SP_JOB, and PJOB also deal with job priorities.

SPJOB -1

is exactly the same as PRIO, priority, or PRIORITISE.