Kbase 19552: New OS-COMMAND related parameter RunDosTimeout (8.1C only)
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
3/10/2000 |
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New OS-COMMAND related parameter RunDosTimeout (8.1C only)
Starting with patch 8.1C16 Progress introduces a new parameter in the [Startup] section of progress.ini. It is called RunDosTimeout and it defaults to 6, if not specified in progress.ini.
It is the number of seconds OS-COMMAND will look for the file (the so-called semaphore file stored in the directory specified with the -T startup parameter) that is written by RUNDOWMW.EXE before giving up.
The following is an example:
[Startup]
RunDosTimeout=10
This will make OS-COMMAND look for the file for up to 10 seconds before
giving up.
The reason for the addition of this parameter is that some customers experienced that OS-COMMAND was not waiting for the execution of what was started by it and then broke up the flow of their application.
Now the customer has the opportunity to enlarge the time for Progress to wait for the semaphore file to be successfully created, so that the flow of the application continues in an expected way.