Neil Harvey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
 
>So I built in a 1 second pause between Pokes within Quick (run command
>"pause 1").
 
Neil,
 
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.  At my company we did some
testing of code like this and found that a relativly significant
amount of time and resources are used when doing a "RUN COMMAND" in
Quick.  You are basicly creating another instance of CI, right?  Could
it be that the one second delay is not as much a problem as the
overhead of "RUN COMMAND?"
 
What we did was put the pause into the XL using a little C pgm and
used a "DO EXTERNAL" to pause.  The overhead is GREATLY reduced.  And
they lived happily ever after...
 
Hope this helps.
 
Richard Brightwell
HBO & Company