[windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?

  • From: "Dan Manell" <dan.manell@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:52:44 +0200

Andrew Shriner wrote:
> 
> LOL
> 
> That's ingenious, I would never have thought to use ping as a delay.
> 
> Drew
> 
> > >>> listray@xxxxxxxxxx 05/24/04 09:12AM >>>
> > Here's the poor man's pauser.  Ping localhost n+1 times.
> > 
> > @echo off
> > @echo Thirty seconds beginning
> > ping -n 31 localhost>nul
> > @echo Thirty seconds have past.
> > 
> > Ray at work

I have used ping for DNS lookup since nslookup doesn't seem to set
ERRORLEVEL.

Does anyone else have more creative uses of ping and other things?

/Dan M


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