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- From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Arexx question
- Message-ID: <38425@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:13:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.071959.4572@sol.UVic.CA> <1993Jan8.032750.1849@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
- Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1993Jan8.032750.1849@latcs1.lat.oz.au> burton@latcs1.lat.oz.au (James Burton version 1340) writes:
- >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
- >>
- >
- >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
- >
- >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.
- >--
- > Personally Be Sideways, because of the tree of life.
- > Don't let yourself become a leaf.
- > Belittle the small, enlighten the rich.
-
- The rexxsupport.library has a function called 'delay()' that will do just
- what you want.
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