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- From: olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel)
- Message-ID: <olsen.7797@sourcery.mxm.sub.org>
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- Subject: Re: Term 2.5 Questions
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- Date: 19 Jan 93 22:31:37 CET
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- In article <1993Jan17.111544.1803@ultb.isc.rit.edu> rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead) writes:
- > [Forwarded]
- >
- > I've been checking out Term V2.5 and would like to know if anyone else is
- > using this terminal/communications program?
-
- Me, for example ;-)
-
- > I'm particularly interested in usage of "waitstring". The doc mentions that
- > more than one "waitstring" requests may be active at once. It also indicates
- > that the command is "Synchronous", which means that the ARexx script will not
- > return until the command is completed (timeout or string found).
- >
- > So, how (other than using multiple ARexx scripts) is one to wait for more than
- > one string at once, and take action depending on which is found.
-
- Hold it, hold it! I am currently rewriting the ARexx interface so things
- will work differently in the future.
-
- The `waitstring' command accepts a certain number of parameters, separated
- by spaces. As soon as any of the argument strings appears in the input
- data stream the command returns with the string encountered placed in
- the `result' variable.
-
- > Note that the problem with using multiple scripts is that when one waitstring
- > finds a match it's difficult (or impossible) to clear up the outstanding
- > "waitstring" requests, without doing something silly like letting them timeout
- > or aborting all ARexx scripts! Of course aborting scripts is not useful as
- > the script that does the abort will not likely be able to continue either!
-
- As the command works synchronously, you cannot start more than one
- single script to take advantage of it.
-
- > I'll probably find a way to ask the author, but thought I'd try locally,
- > first.
- >
- > BTW, Term 2.5 looks much better than past releases. I still get enforcer hits
- > at startup, but just a couple of low memory reads. Not that this is good,
- > just that it's not likely to cause (in itself) much trouble.
-
- Better than `term' v2.4? There is no such v2.5, v2.5e, v2.6, v2.7, v3.0i.
-
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