Re: [Gretl-devel] append and sleep
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza wrote:
You may see my problem in the script below. The function tries
to linearize automatically a list os series (interpolate missing
observations and correct outliers) trough TRAMO. (It is not
finished yet as it has some problems with missing data and
unadjusted series). Gretl processes the line "append" some
miliseconds before the previous Windows command has finished...
Ah, I see. But in that context you'd be better off with a flag to
make the shell command execute synchronously, i.e. for gretl to
wait just as long as is needed for the shell command to complete.
(This might have some relevance to Sven's project too.)
Since we don't want to try parsing gretl-specific flags out of a
"! <do stuff>" line, which might contain similar-looking flags
intended for an external program, this would probably have to take
the form of a "set" command. For example "set shell sync" (with
"set shell async" to turn it off), or perhaps "set shell_sync
{on|off}".
Allin.