On May 3, 2004, at 11:17 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
Oh, certainly - you can interrupt basically anything at all on the computer with sleep, and it will simply continue where it left off. I do this all the time with compilations, long-running scientific experiments, regression tests, etc. on my PowerBook. The wake-from-sleep functionality is very robust and fast.
The only trouble you're likely to see is when an external resource (like a network or a printer) doesn't like you pausing in the middle of something you're doing to it, and then some operations involving that resource might not just continue where you left off.
-Ken
Thanks, Ken,
Yes, I have had some trouble with my printer when the powerbook gets sleepy. One time it just kept printing one character on a page and used up all the paper. But the disk drive is a local firewire drive, so it should be okay.
Joe.
