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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Something useful with AREXX
Keywords: dme
Message-ID: <9031@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 13:22:59 GMT
References: <2897@pur-phy>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2897@pur-phy> murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy) writes:
>
>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.

That is easy of DME has an AREXX port.  Just have a simple AREXX program
that contains something like this:  (This is not REAL code...)

     address command; "Wait 5 minutes"   /* Use th CLI wait command */
     check if DME is still around and exit if not...
     address DME; "do the save command"  /* I don't have DME */
     /* Now loop back and wait again... */

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

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