On: Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:37:19PM -0500,Huegel, Thomas Wrote:
} It all depends on what you want to do.
} In some cases you may not want to wait forever for a file that may never
arrive.
} So you put the timer in.
} If on the other hand the vm is totally driven by the arrival of a RDR file,
then there would be no reason to have a timer value.
WAKEUP has (or used to have) a problem with midnight, so my wakeup execs
usually had:
'WAKEUP 23:59:57 (..........'
if rc = timer pop
then 'CP SLEEP 5 SECS'
loop back to wakeup
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