Oops, that sould have been
ping -n (number of seconds to sleep) localhost
Louis

"yepiknowiam" <yepiknowiam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a wait/sleep equilivant command for the command prompt? I know
> there is wscript.sleep for vbs files.
>
> I'm running a batch file and want to it pause a few seconds between
commands.
>
> Haven't found much from microsoft. There is the waitfor command but it
> wasn't recognized.
>
> Thanks.