; WAITTASK ;--------------------------------------------------------------- ;! halt AIPS until specified task is finished ;# VERB POPS ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Copyright (C) 1995 ;; Associated Universities, Inc. Washington DC, USA. ;; ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of ;; the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;; ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public ;; License along with this program; if not, write to the Free ;; Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, ;; MA 02139, USA. ;; ;; Correspondence concerning AIPS should be addressed as follows: ;; Internet email: aipsmail@nrao.edu. ;; Postal address: AIPS Project Office ;; National Radio Astronomy Observatory ;; 520 Edgemont Road ;; Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;--------------------------------------------------------------- WAITTASK LLLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUU CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC WAITTASK: Verb which halts AIPS until the task is finished TASK Task to wait for Task name may be inserted as an immediate argument i.e WAIT task or WAIT 'task'. The adverb is then ignored. ---------------------------------------------------------------- WAITTASK Type: Verb Use: Causes AIPS to suspend itself until a specified task has finished. Useful to insure correct ordering of processes. The format is WAITTASK name where is the task name. It need not be spelled out in full (min. match does apply). Adverbs: TASK Name of task which must finish before AIPS resumes (5 characters or less). Used only if no immediate argument is given. ----------------------------------------------------------------