Design Problem

Hi everybody,

I have a design problem apart from specific VB coding. I hope that someone
can help me.

- I have instructions that are stored in plain text files. There is an
undefined number of instruction files, but not too many to handle. The files
are collected in a certain folder where the are collected.

- the instructions of all files are sent over one serial port

Until now, I would simply create a collector that opens one after the other,
sends the instructions and throws away the rest.

Now the problem:

The files can contain pauses like:

instruction1
instruction2
pause(40secs)
instruction3

my problem is: how can I do the pause and send the instructions of other
instruction files in the meantime?

i.e.
instruction1
instruction2
pause(40secs)
instruction1
instruction2
instruction1
instruction3

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help!!

Ole Weigelt


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