Pause in Command Line

[Marvinator]

i'm using a Win 98 boot disk to ghost machines over a LAN connection.

Our boot disk has found that on the new machines, some of
the lines to install the network drivers and such happen too
quickly for the old style Win98 commands to handle. We've
discovered that by adding a "Pause" command, we can get
these fast computers to load more uniformly.

BUT, we don't want to have to stand there and punch
a key after each command. In BASIC, many years ago
I could use a Count command to make the computer stop
and wait for a few seconds.

Does anyone know of a way to make a computer do this now?

[rpertusio]

Windows doesn't include a commandline to accomplish this by default.

However, there is a little trick you can use, which may be suitable for your purposes. You simply ping yourself for X number of seconds.

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 7 -w 1000 > nul

You ping yourself (127.0.0.1) for 7 seconds, at an interval of 1000 milliseconds, and hide the output (nul). Change the number 7 to the number of seconds you would like to wait

- rp

[Marvinator]

Nice thought, and we thought of that too, but TCP/IP is not loaded and you only get "Bad Command or File Name". Remember this is the Boot disk, and not a Command Window.

[DontMindMe]

You might have better luck using CHOICE

You can set it to default to a key press after x seconds.

[rpertusio]

you beat me to it, DontMindMe Welcome to TechIMO!

You'll need to copy "Choice.com" to the disk if it isn't there already.

- rp

[Salesman_Gil]

Check this link out: http://members.aol.com/bretjohn/ and look for the program called slow down, make sure you check ou tthe switches...

I've ran in to very similar problems......

[elmers]

I could write a proggy for that if you want.

[elmers]

http://www.elmers.cjb.net/pause.zip

Pauses for half a second.