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Batch(Dos), Delay between command
Name: bbmak Date: December 29, 2007 at 03:57:03 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: 1024
Comment:
I want a few second delay between each line when executed. Are there anyway to do it? like 5 seconds delay.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 29, 2007 at 09:24:55 Pacific
Reply:
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 300000
===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 2
Name: User123456789 Date: January 3, 2008 at 03:55:09 Pacific
Reply:
Until the day that MS provides us with a correct to do that, you can get a Windows ported "sleep" command, from the internet ...
... or you can use "CHOICE", stolen from another (old) Windows version, which is actually a command to query user input, but it has got a time-out functionality, like "ping".
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