Re: [MacPerl] Cron

[Simon Barnes <barnes@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com>]

Craig Muth sent me the following replacement for sleep() which
apparently doesn't tie up the Mac.  I haven't tested it:

use Mac::Events;
sub pause {
  my ($time) = @_;
  my $start = time();
  WaitNextEvent until time > ($start + $time);
}

>I've used Frontier to do this in the past, but would like to use 
MacPerl 
>instead. All I've been able to find that's relevant is the sleep() 
>function, but this seems to tie up the Mac. My idea is to periodically 
>close files in order to back them up and then reopen them.


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