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Short: waits for tasks to finish
WHAT IS IT ?
The idea for this program came to me while talking to Walter
Mildenberger, who said: "Self-detaching programs are stupid!"
(Okay, those weren't his original words, but that's what he
meant).
We talked about the problem of waiting on such a program from the
CLI. This is quite difficult because there is no possible way of
finding out when the program finishes.
This problem is solved now! WaitForTask scans Exec's task lists
regularly and looks for a program name, which is specified when
you run the program. WaitForTask will not return until this task
exists!
Using this command you can easily synchronise your scripts with
self detaching programs.
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4780 2009 57.9% 31-Aug-92 09:25:00 WaitForTask.doc
5442 2416 55.6% 31-Aug-92 09:32:08 WaitForTask.dok
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