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Jon TURNEY wrote:But why would you fix the timeout problem by doing some horrible horrible iteration in the DOS batch script (horrible) (which would probably have to busy-wait (also horrible) as there's no sleep command), when you can fix checkX, which has the bonus of fixing other uses of it?
I actually wrote a version of this. It IS horrible -- but no need for a busywait, I used the "ping trick":
C:\windows\system32\ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>nul
"sleeps" for (n-1)==1 seconds.
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