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I'm not sure if I understood well what you're trying to do, but if you need to start an action (e.g. move this distance and turn this angle) and wait until it's complete to send the next one I'd say actionlib is much more suited to your needs than topics.

See http://www.ros.org/wiki/actionlib

Hope that helps.

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