On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to use the PIPE to send a message to the console before > waiting for the response? You can do REXX say statements to display a message before the Pipe. You can't feed anything into that "cons" stage because it may not have an input connected to act as console input. You could make another unconnected pipeline segment output the text, but I don't see much value in that. A more interesting challenge would be a 'count down' to display a message every minute while waiting. In principle the "beat" stage would be fine for that, but it needs some work to make sure the pipe terminates nicely on user input. I could understand apprentice plumbers who code a wait for 1 minute in a REXX loop ;-) -Rob
