Fw: &*^%^$#%$*& USER!

[Brian K. White]

sent this privately by accident...

Brian K. White wrote:
> Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> "Brian K. White" wrote:
>> [...]
>>>      then: user cgc = cgc
>>>      then: cgc = getenv("COMPANY"){","{scanimg_dtyp{","{scanimg_dnum
>>>      then: system "winstart
>>>      http://"{getenv("SRVIP"){"/cgi-bin/showthm?"{cgc then: close
>>> cgc ; return
>> [...]
>>> two possible work-arounds that I can see are:
>>> 1) track whether user has ever been opened in a global variable and
>>> then check the variable at the beginning of the gosub and never
>>> close the user command.
>> 
>> Why are you closing it in the first place?  There is no need, since
>> you have properly written the script to loop.
>> 
>>> 2) don't track whether user has already been opened, just always
>>> open it once in @once and never close it.
>> 
>> What do you mean "open it once in @once"?
>> 
>> Unless you have some overriding need to close the pipe which I don't
>> see, simply remove the "close cgc" from your subroutine.
>> 
>> [...]
> 
> Are you saying that if I have the command "user cgc = cgc"
> encountered by processing many times, it will not spawn more than one
> child process? 
> 
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