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Re: tell a script to tend to system process for X amount of time?
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Re: tell a script to tend to system process for X amount of time?


  • Subject: Re: tell a script to tend to system process for X amount of time?
  • From: peter boardman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:06:17 +0000

Patrick Collins <email@hidden> said on 2005-03-16, 23:19 (-0800 GMT):

> How can I say "Mr. Applescript.. Please tell my G5 to tend to system processes and come back in 5 seconds..."?????

You could try:

delay 5

but that still seems to consume plenty of cycles. (Why so many, I wonder?)

Or try:

do shell script “sleep 5”

which is weird, but seems to take fewer cycles.


Pete
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