At 21:42 11/08/1998 , Tim Truax wrote:
>Pete,
>Right now the transaction program is being called every time a transaction 
>comes in, this has got to stop as we are getting transmission 4 seconds 
>apart.  What would be the best way to
>OCCASIONALLY call the transaction program, instead of every transmission.  
>There is no rhyme or reason to the way the transmissions come in, you could 
>be hammered for 20 minutes
>continuously, and have an area where you got 1 free hour of time with no 
>transmissions.  Let me know

Well, you could save the system time when you execute the update process, and 
then check it each time you process a transaction. When the original time is an 
hour less than the current time, you call the update again. Something like that 
...

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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