Re: how to let my program sleep a while

>Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:31:05 -0700
>From: "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@attglobal.net>
> ...
>Isolate the function via /COPY and you can change the contents of the
/COPY to satisfy the
>method de jour.
>
> so your program will have:
>
>C            z-add    30    waitsec
>C            exsr    wait
>
>And somewhere else you would have:
>
>C/copy xxxxxxxxxx,waitfunctn
>
>Where waitfunctn can contain a call to QCMDEXC, a call to a CL program, a
CALLP to your own
>procedure, a CALLP to a C function or even if you're a rebel, a wait on a
data queue that
>never has content.
> ...

James, I don't think your /COPY method isolates the code any better
than having your users code this:
   C            callp     wait (30)
with your "wait" subprocedure or program using the method du jour?

Besides the fact that using a subprocedure in a service program, or using
another program allows you to modify your code and have all the users
immediately pick up the change, using your /COPY method requires the users
to remember more (the /copy file name, the subroutine name, AND the name of
the variable with the number of seconds).

Barbara Morris

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