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- From: ORAKEL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Framstag)
- Subject: DCL: wait <until-absolut-time>?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172148.22771@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
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- Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:21:48 GMT
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- I have a problem with a DCL program:
- I want to wait until an absolute time. The manual tells me WAIT accepts
- only a delta-time parameter.
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- Is there a way to wait until an absolute time? (I don't want to program a
- loop checking every second if the specified time is reached - uhhahhhhhh!)
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- \ Ulli 'Framstag' Horlacher \ psi%(0262)45050260103::orakel \
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