How does a command find out who called it?

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Wed Feb 1 19:51:12 EST 2012


The first. 

Bob


On Feb 1, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Pete wrote:

> Yeah, I guess the question was does 'dispatch "xyz" to the target' equate
> to 'send "xyz" to the target', or send "xyz" to the target in 0 seconds'.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Pete,
>> 
>> The following does (almost?) the same as dispatch:
>> 
>> try
>> send "bla" to me"
>> end try
>> 
>> and now you could add the "in 0 secs" if you want.
>> 
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>> 
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>> On 1 feb 2012, at 23:59, Pete wrote:
>> 
>>> This is fascinating stuff.  I always wondered about the logic of sending
>>> something in zero seconds, now I know.
>>> 
>>> I hate to complicate things even more but how does dispatch work in this
>>> regard?  I've always thought of it as a replacement for send with a nicer
>>> syntax, but it doesn't have an "in time" clause, so.....
>>> 
>>> Pete
>> 
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