[AccessD] OT:Batch file Question

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Feb 26 21:31:05 CST 2004


On 27 Feb 2004 at 12:36, Stuart McLachlan wrote:

> > 
> Not  completely OT, so I'm replying on list since it's also a useful 
> technique within a VBA Shell command.
> 
> You can do it using CHOICE:
> 

But only if you are using W9X :-( 

MS in their wisdom have not used it in NT/2000/XP !

An alternative is to  PING  an unreachable address

PING 0.0.0.1 -n 1 -w 5000 > Null

will time out after  5,000 milliseconds
( Just make sure that 0.0.0.1 or whatever IP address use is 
unreachable)



 

 
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