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Re: Pausing / Delaying Program Execution Help?

#19162
From: Marc Jourdenais
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:00
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ARRGH.  I think I went temporarily brain-dead.   A little too quick on the POST
trigger.   I meant something like:

while (true)
{
 // check mailbox
 Thread.sleep(10000);
}

Sorry,
Marc

Marc Jourdenais wrote:

> Sterling,
>
> Have you tried:
>
> while (Thread.sleep(10000))
> {
>  // check mailbox
> }
>
>  - Marc
>
> Sterling Moses wrote:
>
> > I have a program which checks a POP3 box for email, when it sees there is
> > email waiting it parses this into a database.
> >
> > How can I suspend the program for a period of time and say have it check
> > every 10 seconds, and do this internal to the program.
> >
> > I tried to use Threads but I am not getting the results I would like, but am
> > also very new to java. I have a background in C/C++, but just new to java.
> >
> > Any help, anything would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Post comments here, or send them directly to sterling@cecoh.com
> >
> > Sterling.
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