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Re: running IDL as a 'sleeping' process [message #78880 is a reply to message #78873]

Wed, 04 January 2012 07:21

penteado
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On Jan 3, 5:48 pm, desertdryad <dry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this sort of daily repeating process in the realm of possibility
> for IDL to do? Should I be thinking of some sort of 'wrapper' program
> that calls IDL to do this? I know just enough C/C++ to get in
> trouble :) but not much of anything like Java and the like. Comments
> and suggestions welcome. Thanks!

One simple and IDL-only (thus platform-independent) way to do it is
use IDL's wait procedure. The program can do its thing, then call
systime() to find out how long to sleep, then call wait to sleep for
the desired time.

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		Re: running IDL as a 'sleeping' process By: Russell[1] on Wed, 04 January 2012 13:14
		Re: running IDL as a 'sleeping' process By: penteado on Wed, 04 January 2012 07:21
		Re: running IDL as a 'sleeping' process By: Vincent Sarago on Tue, 03 January 2012 14:20
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