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- Subject: Re: Arexx question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.032750.1849@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
- From: burton@latcs1.lat.oz.au (James Burton version 1340)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:27:50 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.071959.4572@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Though I turn, I cannot see you :
- >I have a simple question about Arexx... I want for my Arexx program to
- >sit and wait for say 3 minutes or so, and then continue on with the program.
- >How do I get ARexx to do that without~r using up much processor time?
- >The loop that I tried didn't work too hot. 8-) There must be a command
- >that does this??? Anybody? Thanks.
- >
- >Aaron Ramsey
- >amramsey@sirius.UVIC.ca
- >
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- Yes, I would be interested in this.
- If you try to do the following
- 'c:wait' 50
- from an AREXX program, it does not wait.
- I suppose it backgrounds the shell task.
- Can somebody please confirm this?
- I find it extremely annoying.
-
- James
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- p.s. the problem is nothing to do with 'wait' because
- I wrote a C program which called Delay(atoi(argv[1])),
- this worked perfectly from the shell, but no effect from AREXX.
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