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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arexx 'waitforport'
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Date: 29 May 90 12:41:15 GMT
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In <30304@cup.portal.com>, Robert_No-doubt_Gregory@cup.portal.com writes:
>Perhaps someone else has encountered this problem and can tell me what is
>wrong:  I try to execute the following arexx program:
>     rx "address command 'waitforport sh'"
>
>The result I get is: +++ Command returned 327680
>I expected the waitforport command to wait for 10 seconds and then terminate
>(since there is no port named sh).  Waitforport is a command that comes with
>Arexx but I have never gotten it to work right within a rexx program.
>It seems to work ok if i just enter 'waitforport sh' from a CLI (actually
>Wshell).  I have encountered several rexx programs that use 'waitforport'
>but have never been able to use them because of this problem.  Any ideas or
>suggestions are apprecited.

Hmm... works fine for me. Just tried it exactly like you did, and it waited 10
seconds and exited with a return code of 0.

-larry

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