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[PLUG] Faking "sleep" on Windows via: ping -n 5 localhost > NUL
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JP Vossen wrote:
> As a totally OT example, Windows lacks a 'sleep 5' command but you can
> trivially fake it like this: 'ping -n 5 localhost > NUL'. Not
> guaranteed to be 5 seconds exactly, but...
Cool! Thanks! I wrote my own years ago, but could have not bothered.
--Fred
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