PMMail Update Plans II - Response

[Ralph Cohen]

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:34:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    I dunno if it is.  IIRC Bob said that how he achieved the delay was to
>open another thread which sent an alarm to the main thread in x seconds which,
>when it gets that alarm, opens a fetch thread.
>
>    The the alarm function is from the Windows API and the only resolution it
>has is in seconds it limits what Southsoft can do in terms of timing.

That really shouldn't be a problem, since all they'd have to do is
implement a thread with an accumulator with would increment every time
10 seconds passed.

..
 for x% = 1 to numberof10secondincrements%
     wait 10 seconds
 next x%
 do fetch
..


Ralph

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