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- From: not@inmos.co.uk ('o-Dzin Tridral / Brian O'Donovan)
- Subject: Re: DCL: wait <until-absolut-time>?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.082650.3057@titan.inmos.co.uk>
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- References: <1993Jan26.172148.22771@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:26:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.172148.22771@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> ORAKEL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Framstag) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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!)
-
- Hi!
-
- Despite what the manual may tell you, WAIT will do just what you want...
-
- $WAIT 28-Jan-1993 08:25:20.01
-
- (or whatever) actually works. As far as I know, it's undocumented, it's
- certainly not in the on-line help.
-
- Cheers,
-
- 'o-Dzin
- >
- >
- >\ Ulli 'Framstag' Horlacher \ psi%(0262)45050260103::orakel \
- > \ Student consultant VAX/VMS and networks \ orakel@dulruu51.bitnet \
- > \ Rechenzentrum Universitaet Ulm Germany \ orakel@rz.uni-ulm.de \
- > \ "With mainframes you just can do nonsense, with PCs not even that." \
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