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Re: Pause v. sleep
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:04:00 -0500
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Ken Hirsch wrote:

> 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\

Not to be confused with the (privileged) CM mode SLEEP, which *really*
sleeps quite soundly.

Jeff

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