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  1. GeoffKelly

    Suspend Script while running ext prog (w/o WAITFOR)

    Silly me! TaskID is "(null)" because I used the wrong substitution operator (%s instead of %i). The corrected code works perfect! *********************************************************** PROC MAIN INTEGER TaskID RUN "CMD.EXE" TaskID WHILE...
  2. GeoffKelly

    Suspend Script while running ext prog (w/o WAITFOR)

    Thank you for your response. It looks as if this should work. Since I am new to ASPECT I kinda overthought the problem - didn't know about TASKEXISTS. I wrote a quick sample script (below) to test whether this will work for the DOS app and it works, although the TaskID is set to...
  3. GeoffKelly

    Suspend Script while running ext prog (w/o WAITFOR)

    Does anyone know if it is possible to suspend a script from continuing until an external program (launched by script) is closed? Unfortunately, both the DOS program and Windows program I will be spawning don't output any information back on the COM ports I will be talking to in my script so I...

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