Subj : DOS "sleep" utility
To   : mark lewis
From : Don Guy
Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 10:52 pm

Greetings mark!

   A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a coded message from mark lewis 
to Don Guy was intercepted...

 ml> it would seem that you don't simply want to delay/sleep for a time
 ml> but instead to actually wait for the other task to complete before
 ml> resuming??

Yes and no.  :-)  I'm attempting to mirror a REXX script with a DOS batch file, 
which loops until a semaphore has been cleared.

    :Top
        if exist FILENAME.EXT
            sleep(x)
            goto Top

I could simply eliminate the sleep() function, but I'd prefer to avoid 
unnecessary CPU loading.

-Don



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