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From: "Alan Rice" <alanrice@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: Pause in build cku192.is5r3netjc
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:21:29 -0400
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Thanks Frank,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:8ff5r7$fvs$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu...
> In article <shm6917tkcp167@corp.supernews.com>,
> Alan Rice <alanrice@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> : Upgrading some boxes to kermit 6 with build cku192.is5r3netjc and I
found
> : out that the pause command isn'y acting right.
> : When it is given from cmd line or take file like this : pause 2, it just
> : hangs there until you hit the enter key. I need the pauses in an
automated
> : process that runs great on kermit 5 but the bad dates that kermit 5
produces
> : on the get command are causing other problems. Anybody got any ideals on
> : what the problem or fix might be?
> :
> PAUSE just calls sleep(), which is a pretty standard UNIX system service.
> If it's not working in your build, it's because the build was done on a
> different platform than the one you actually have. I'm afraid the only
> remedy is to build it directly on your platform, but that would require a
> C compiler, linker, and header files.
>
> If you can't do that, here's a shot in the dark: instead of PAUSE 2, try:
>
> msleep 500
> msleep 500
> msleep 500
> msleep 500
>
> MSLEEP calls a different system service, so it might work.
>
> - Frank