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Pause v. sleep
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:28:18 -0500
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As long as you're only interested in pausing for an integral number of
seconds, you can call the C/POSIX sleep function instead of PAUSE.

E.g.

CALL "sleep" USING \5\
or
CALL "sleep" USING \PAUSE-TIME\

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