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- NAME
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- Wait
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- FORMAT
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- WAIT [<n>] [SEC|SECS] [MIN|MINS] [UNTIL <time>]
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- PURPOSE
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- To wait for the specified time.
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- SPECIFICATION
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- WAIT is used in command sequences or after RUN to wait for a
- certain period, or to wait until a certain time. Unless you
- specify otherwise, the waiting period is one second. The
- argument specifies the number of seconds (or minutes, if MIN
- is given) to wait. Use the keyword UNTIL to wait until a
- particular time of the day, given in the format HH:MM.
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- EXAMPLES
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- 1> WAIT 10 MINS
- Waits ten minutes.
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- 1> WAIT UNTIL 21:15
- Waits until 9:15 p.m.
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- BUGS
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- NONE.
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- AUTHOR
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- Commodore Business Machines. This program is provided with your Amiga
- Workbench disks. It can be found in your C: directory.
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- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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- This man page was written by:
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- Markus Hillenbrand
- Hauptstrasse 6
- 36124 Eichenzell-Loeschenrod
- Germany
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- E-mail: m_hillen@informatik.uni-kl.de
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- SEE ALSO
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- Time(AmigaDOS)
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