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Stephen Bridges said, 

> I'm planning to give myself the choice between mail, news, mail&news and
> none. But the problem is that I'd like the mail&news choice to run
> concurrently. So the question is what is the best way to get an arexx
> script to launch two processes at once. The best I came up with was:

> SELECT
>  WHEN choice = 2 THEN getmail()
>  WHEN choice = 3 THEN getnews()
>  WHEN choice = 1 THEN DO
>   ADDRESS COMMAND
>   'rx rexx:getmail.rexx'
>   'rx rexx:getnews.rexx'
>   END
>  OTHERWISE EXIT
> END
> EXIT

> Where getnews.rexx and getmail.rexx are just getmail() and getnews() as
> seperate scripts.

You need to "run" the scripts, and presumably wait for them both to exit
before you disconnect. Something like

setclip('downloads',0)

at the start, then

  WHEN choice = 1 THEN DO
   ADDRESS COMMAND
   'run >NIL: rx rexx:getmail.rexx'
   'run >NIL: rx rexx:getnews.rexx'
   do while getclip(downloads) > 0
	call delay(25)
	end
   END

and put

call setclip('downloads',getclip(downloads)+1))

at the start of each of the mail and news scripts and

call setclip('downloads',getclip(downloads)-1))

at the end.

> If there is a more elegant way I'd like to hear, also if
> there is a 'proper' way to execute an arexx script inside another.

Using "address command" is about as clean as it gets. You don't need
rx if the script bit is set on the script.


Neil
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