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From: mleeser@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Mark Leeser)
Subject: Need help....  running too fast??
Message-ID: <1994Nov3.220845.24191@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
Organization: NASA
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 22:08:45 GMT
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Hi, I'm working on a lisp script to be used through Interleaf.
I call a shell script (sh) within the .lsp program.  The shell
script runs fine outside of the lisp script, but when the shell
script is called by the lisp program, it will not run the entire
script.
 
For example, it will run any commands (in the shell script) that can
be executed very quickly, but if a command will take a few seconds,
it stops running the shell script and passes back to the lisp program.
 
It sounds hokey, but to test it, I placed a "sleep 3" in the shell 
and tried running it, then moved the sleep further down in the script,
and ran it again.  Everytime, it would stop running the script
as soon as it hit the first sleep statement.
 
As you can probably tell, I know nothing about lisp, so any help
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks...
 
                                mleeser@core1.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov
 

