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How do you sleep in DOS?

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Name: Brian Cabildo
Date: October 29, 1998 at 10:10:48 Pacific
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Is there any command I could use in a DOS batchfile that is similar to the UNIX sleep command?
Thanks in advance!



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Name: Joey Lanza
Date: October 30, 1998 at 15:34:15 Pacific
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This command will create a 10 second pause...user intervention will have no effect. Replace "10" with any value from 1 to 99.

type nul|choice /t:n,10>nul


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Response Number 2
Name: John Whittington CNE, MCS
Date: November 10, 1998 at 22:56:03 Pacific
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Try looking up the commands for POWER in DOS 6X.. it has those options.


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Response Number 3
Name: WIFFER
Date: November 10, 1998 at 23:10:21 Pacific
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CLOSE YOUR EYES!


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Response Number 4
Name: Hallberg
Date: November 15, 1998 at 08:44:28 Pacific
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I don't know if this could help but in WinNT4 you can use:

wait 10


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