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Re: suspend execution of a script



Well if it's really a matter of CPU cycles, and you don't mind to use Smile, then you can have a look to 'smilepause'.

++ JB

Le 13 févr. 05, à 01:19, Doug McNutt a écrit :

At 18:48 +0100 2/12/05, Guido Casiraghi wrote:
I want to suspend the execution of a script for a fixed timeout (this is usually called "sleep" in other languages)

It has been said that:

do shell script  "sleep  600"

will use fewer memory cycles allowing other processes more free time. I'm not sure it's still true.

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