scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) (10/19/89)
I would like to thank Rob Peck for providing a workable solution to my orginal question about having a script wait for completion of an event or multiple events. Instead of using a file as a signal and having the parent script do a wait-loop I used a pipe as a kind of semaphore. The parent script once it has started the others as background tasks does a type pipe:a (or whatever pipe name desginated). This causes the parent to halt until somebody writes to that pipe. One question I do have about this method: does the Amiga OS waste any CPU resources while that script is trying to read the pipe? Thanks again Rob for the quick reply. -- _ /// /_\ Scot L. Harris !hoptoad!peora!{tarpit,rtmvax}!amigash!scot \XX/ / \ M I G A [If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.]