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[James]

Does anyone know how to delay a batch file from running.
I have researched this on he web & found the following;

sleep 6000
sleep 6000;
sleep (6000);

None of these pause my batch file for 60secs as it should.

I know about the pause command, unfortunately I need this
to run automatically at a certain time.

Regards

James

Ps I know this not a dos newsgroup but I thought that one
of you guru's would know

 

[Martin]

Does anyone know how to delay a batch file from running.
I have researched this on he web & found the following;

sleep 6000
sleep 6000;
sleep (6000);

None of these pause my batch file for 60secs as it should.

I know about the pause command, unfortunately I need this
to run automatically at a certain time.

Regards

James

Ps I know this not a dos newsgroup but I thought that one
of you guru's would know

Sleep() is not a standard DOS utility, so your PC will only have it if
someone put it there.
Try searching one of the ShareWare libraries (like TwoCows.com, or
DownLoad.com).

 

[David]

James

In Windows 2000 (and maybe later versions) open up Control Panel, and click
on Scheduled Tasks.

This scheduler allows you to set a time to run a program (and repeatedly
should you so wish) and can be used to start a batch file at any time you
like.

Or did you mean that once your batch file has started running you wanted it
to pause for a given number of seconds at some point? It is a simple matter
to write a program to do this - I have written my own sleep.exe (in C) for
exactly this purpose. You can have a copy if you like - but would you trust
an exe file from a stranger?

David

 

[Bob I]

A convenient substitute is

PING -n 61 127.0.0.1

the number after the -n equals the seconds desired plus 1

 

[Bastet]

Does anyone know how to delay a batch file from running.
I have researched this on he web & found the following;

sleep 6000
sleep 6000;
sleep (6000);

None of these pause my batch file for 60secs as it should.

I know about the pause command, unfortunately I need this
to run automatically at a certain time.

Regards

James

Ps I know this not a dos newsgroup but I thought that one
of you guru's would know

No, you're right, this is not a DOS newsgroup - it is a group for the MS
Office - please go and find a more suitable place to post...