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Re: TODAY

** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  on Thu, 14
Sep 2006 13:51:21 -0400


> I see you added a WAIT command. Interesting. Even on my
> slowest machine (a K6/2, running at 333 MHz) I hadn't
> run into any problems without it.

Whether you need to wait for some interval is not particularly the issue (but,
N.B., your human sense of time is rather less precise and more elastic than a
computer's -- getting just one nanosecond ahead of the game can be fatal). I
use it because I presume that the WAIT command, when cleared, reinitializes
internal variables and closes other commands. And it *can* take a while for
removable drives to spin up and do their stuff. Many commands demonstrably
require WAIT. It's present in all factory code. I always use it.

> Apropos of Wait, does anyone know what those "temporary
> files" created by the conversion filters are called?

The main one is W4W99INT.TMP. Why would you want to delete them? They delete
themselves!

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Robert Holmgren
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