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From: dick@woodwrk.UUCP (Richard H. Wood, Garland, Texas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arexx 'waitforport'
Message-ID: <3604.AA3604@woodwrk.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 10:35:08 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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Larry Phillips writes:
>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
>

Humm... I with Robert on this one.  I tried it exactly as well, and it gives
me the same results Robert described.  


-d.
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