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Date:Mon Sep 26 03:45:29 1994 
Subject:Re: Pause 
From:"A.Sloman" 
Volume-ID:940927.03 

Adrian wrote
> It should be pointed out that neither of the methods Aaron gives will
> "pause" any asychronous timers.

Good point. I had forgotten about that case.

> To pause the timers you would have to dlocal either pop_asts_enabled or
> pop_enable_interrupts (depending on your version of Poplog). See
> REF * ASYNC for more details.
(That REF file is not available in Poplog V14.2 or earlier. However I
presume REF SIGNALS will have the relevant information.)

Users who want only a subset of their timed procedures to do nothing
during a pause might use a global boolean variable to control them, and
change the value of that variable locally within the pause procedure.

Aaron