Absolutely, call the command intinsic with 'pause n' in the command buffer.

Actually here we end up 'pausing' with time-out reads on message files far
more often than we call 'pause' from cobol.  A typical all-day sleeper
program that reads a data set, waits a bit and reads it again, will get its
end-of-day shutdown command from a message file, so we just read that with a
timeout of 'x' seconds between passes thru the data set instead of pausing
'x' seconds.

Dave ('Yes, we did the real number thing in the early eighties, but not
recently') Powell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Berkowitz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 13:32
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Pause v. sleep

Or you can call the COMMAND or HPCICOMMAND intrinsic passing "PAUSE 5".

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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