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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Eastern time.  N6LRT  I speak for myself & my dogs only.    VM'er since CP-67
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