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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
- Subject: Re: SAS 6.50 smake on Public Screen? et al
- Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
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- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 15:13:24 GMT
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- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
- Keywords: SAS/C++
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- [...]
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- >btw, I have an alternate solution, if anyone can help me code it in
- >ARexx (C I get. C++ I'm starting to get. MUMPS [M] I get. ARexx
- >weirds me out. dunno why). The idea would be to do the following:
- >
- >1. Do all the setup stuff currently done by build.ttx
- >2. Programmatically flip the WB screen to front
- >3. Do the make. Preferably having it not ask me to "Press RETURN to
- >continue..." (any ideas on that one? see the RTFM loop above :-)
- >4. Programatically flip the Turbotext screen to front.
- >
- >Couldn't get it to wait for the make to complete.
-
- address command 'smake -w'
-
- should do the trick. ARexx will wait for an 'address command' to
- complete, since it knows its sending it out to another process. If you
- just stick
-
- 'smake -w'
-
- in your script, ARexx will fire it off and go on with the rest of the
- script.
-
- [...]
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- ---------------
- Jim Cooper
- (jamie@unx.sas.com) bix: jcooper
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