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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: System 7.0 and the suspended
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.162944.24758@sics.se>
Date: 27 Jun 91 16:29:44 GMT
Organization: Satellite Image in Kiruna Corporation
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   I use HC as an interface to a program I'm building. To be able to
display the result from the program I have to open a file and put it into
a card field.

  However: I don't wanna open it before MyApplication has given the
control back to HC. In System 6.0.x this was very easy with the
"suspended" global variable:

 
    open   "My Disk:MyApplication"
    wait until not(the suspended)
    open file "My Disk:output"
    read from file "My Disk:output" for 90000
    put it into cd fld result
    close file "My Disk:output"


But this doesn't work in 7.0, I guess it's because there are no more any MF,
and all this talk about "MultiTasking".


So how do I do? I mean, there must be some way to do this!? 


     /Olle