Re: how to let my program sleep a while

["paul cunnane" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It looks like a Prototype would make sense for using
>
>    C   CallP  Sleep('for' '00:30:00')
>
> or
>
>    C   CallP  Sleep('til' '16:30:00')
>
> command then?

This raises an interesting question.  If I was coding this, I would tend to
use symbolic constants (I don't trust string literals):

    D   FOR       C               0
    D   UNTIL     C               1

    C   CallP  Sleep(FOR '00:30:00')

The question is, how do I make these constants available to the client of a
service program?  I can't EXPORT a CONST from a module.

The workaround I have used is to code the constant declarations into the
/COPY member with the prototypes, which makes them available to both the
service program and the client.  Is there a better way?

--
Paul


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