Write to socket on Mac

[Geoff Canyon]

At 2:36 PM -0500 3/9/02, JohnRule at aol.com wrote:
>In my troubleshooting, I pressed and held the 'Command-period' combination to 
>stop my handler on the Mac (it was so sluggish), and I noticed that as I held 
>the keys down, it started working! It was like I was cancelling whatever was 
>causing the contention, but letting the script execute anyway. Can anyone 
>explain this?

Is it possible the Energy Saver control panel is tripping you up? Under the advanced settings, Processor Cycling can (and will) slow your Mac to a crawl. Doing anything with the mouse or keyboard lets the Mac know to come back up to speed.

regards,

Geoff