Hi Francois,

Replying to a message of Francois Massonneau to David Noon:

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 DN>> What kind of signal? Does it post an event semaphore (not a file)
 DN>> instead?

 FM> HSTART sends a signal to another program named HWAIT which is waiting
 FM> for this signal. This allows you to launch a program or a CMD file
 FM> from a DOS batch file (and vice versa), then make that Dos batch to
 FM> wait for the end of the CMD file when the later sends a signal to
 FM> hwait which is waiting.

Ok, that's an event semaphore.

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 FM> Do you have an email address where I can send this rexx script, as I
 FM> modified it to follow your instructions ?

 dwnoon@os2bbs.com

I poll that mailbox about 4 or 5 times a week.

Regards

Dave


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