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) -- Lexacorp Ltd http://www.lexacorp.com.pg Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System Support.