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  1.    StartTask
  2.    ~~~~~~~~~
  3.    Purpose:  provide an easy way to use the *Virtual command
  4.  
  5.    NOTE: That if !StartTask just ignores attempts to start virtual tasks,
  6.    this is because the current version cannot start tasks when the 
  7.    Alias$TaskWindow has been setup - see '!Virtual.!Help' for details.
  8.  
  9.    Setup:
  10.       Icon                    Action/Meaning                       Default
  11.       ----                    --------------                       -------
  12.  
  13.       Command                 Command line to pass to virtual
  14.                               taskwindow - must be in quotes ""
  15.       Taskname                Name of taskwindow - must be in
  16.                               quotes ""
  17.       Virtual memory          Total size of logical memory to        24M
  18.                               allocate for taskwindow
  19.       Physical memory         Size of physical wimpslot (can be      640
  20.                               changed by user later)
  21.       Niceness level          Nice 0 means the taskwindow will        4
  22.                               eat large amounts of CPU time. ie,
  23.                               not multitask, Nice 0 means hardly
  24.                               any CPU is used.
  25.  
  26.       Let CTRL chars through  Let any Ctrl-key combinations through  off
  27.                               to taskwindow
  28.       Exit with task          Kill task as soon as command finished  off
  29.       Open window immediately Don't wait for character output -      off
  30.                               open taskwindow immediately
  31.  
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