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From: QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX message answerer that eats CPU time...
Message-ID: <91065.183717QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: 6 Mar 91 18:37:17 GMT
References: <91051.184002IO92203@MAINE.BITNET> <1991Feb24.195917.439@sol.UVic.CA> 
  <1991Feb25.055633.18236@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <22331@dice.la.locus.com>
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In article <22331@dice.la.locus.com>, richg@locus.com (Rich Greenberg) says:
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>  do forever                         This will wait for "some" minutes.
>     x = time('R')                   The time(E) call and test will get
>     'CP SLEEP some MIN'             you out if you press ENTER before
>     if time('E') < some * 60        the some minutes pass.  Otherwise there
>        then exit                    is no way out short of #cp i cms.

what's wrong with #CP EXT...works fine for me.
re-ipling seems some much more work :-)