I have tried creating a new variable but the change still doesnt propogate between the apps.
The 'write it to a file' idea works but the time it takes is too long. I have to start the app with a run statement and thengo into a while loop waiting for taskexit to tell me that it finished before...
Running Win 2000 at the moment.
Problem with environment variables is that they seem to be dedicated to the particular instance of the environment.
When I set a variable using a compiled quickbasic exe it does not change in any other shell other than the one it was set in - ie. Procomm only...
Ok. Tried all this and got it to work by writingthe timer to a file and then reading this in procomm once the called task has exited.
This works well but is really slow (time taked for the dos app to createthe file, wrtite the time, close the file, close the app, aspect to open the file, read...
Thanks Volkmanian and knob,
I am writing a script to simulate an application and need to send data out with the original timings and then measure the time taken to get a response - this will be used over a number of different systems to benchmark the transport system.
Maybe I need to find...
I am looking for a way to create an event timer (from sending data on the line to receiving a response for instance) by using some sort of system timer.
All I can find is $ltime which only has one second granularity - I need to get to millisecond granularity.
Anyone help?
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