Re: [MacPerl] Cron

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.36 -0500 1999.02.16, Simon Barnes wrote:
>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 don't understand this "tie up the Mac" stuff with sleep.  Maybe it is
that I have fast machine, but I would use sleep with the Cron I posted, and
saw no noticable slowdown.

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