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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Something useful with AREXX
Summary: Maybe we should start comp.lang.rexx.wars
Keywords: dme
Message-ID: <2897@pur-phy>
Date: 14 Dec 89 17:37:41 GMT
Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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Yesterday, I had the misfortune of crashing in the middle of an editing
session in DME without having saved during the last hour. >-(  Well, that
got me to thinking, "why couldn't AREXX fire up a program which starts
up every 5 minutes or so and tells DME to save whatever it is working on?"

So my question is this, "What would be the best approach to getting AREXX
to put a program to sleep for 5 minutes and then sending DME a message to 
save all files to a temporary space?"  Would it be better if there were
two programs, one in C and the second in AREXX?  The C program could be a
more general purpose chron program with an AREXX port which calls AREXX
to call DME. 

Has anyone done this sort of thing?  Please share it if you can/will.

Thanks,
-- 
 Bill Murphy        murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu