How to do something while files are loading?

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Shagwana
 #1
You can have an animation playing while loading in bmax, heres how ...

setup memory bank, size of file
loop
  read in a <a number of> bytes of the file to memory bank
  update on screen animation
  until whole file loaded
load the file from memory instead of file now

Whats the problem in doing that?, people making a mountin out of a mole hill I say.