sleep and sleepbrk

[Paul Purvis]

sleep waits for so many seconds then continues
sleepbrk does the same as sleep but can be canceled by pressing any key
you can use fractions of a second with sleep and sleepbrk
main use is for including command in batch files


sleep

'pbcc 4.04
'sleep.bas
#COMPILE EXE
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
TEMP&&=VAL(COMMAND$)*1000&&
IF TEMP&&=0&& THEN TEMP&&=1000&&
SLEEP TEMP&&
END FUNCTION

sleepbrk

REM SLEEPBRK.BAS
REM PROGRAM TO SLEEP FOR GIVEN SECONDS ON COMMAND LINE UNLESS INTERRUPTED BY KEY
REM POWERBASIC PBCC 4.0
REM VERSION 10-01-2006
#COMPILE EXE
REM #DIM ALL

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

SLEEPTIME&=VAL(COMMAND$)
IF SLEEPTIME&<=0& THEN
PRINT "error      no seconds supplied on the command tail"
PRINT "supply a number of seconds on the command line upto 8 days"
PRINT "press any key to abort sleepbrk"
SLEEPTIME&=10&
END IF
IF SLEEPTIME&>(86400*8&) THEN
SLEEPTIME&=86400*8&
PRINT "cannot set seconds to sleep longer than 8 days"
PRINT "sleepbrk was reset to 8 days "+STR$(SLEEPTIME&)+" seconds"
PRINT "press any key to abort sleepbrk"
END IF
SLEEPTIMENEW&=SLEEPTIME&*4&
FOR x& = 1& TO SLEEPTIMENEW&
SLEEP 250
Char$ = INKEY$
IF Char$ <> "" THEN EXIT FOR
NEXT x&
END FUNCTION

[Michael Mattias]

FWIW: code to #INCLUDE rather than execute as EXE:
Wait for key, click or clock for PB/WIN and PB/CC