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Is there a command in DCL that will wait for a specified amount of time before executing the next command. I am making a simple command file that will ping a user specified IP Address, wait 5 seconds then repeat the ping process.

Currently I have managed to ask the user for an IP Address which is then pinged. 

$ INQUIRE PINGTEST "Enter IP Address"
$ TCPIP PINGTEST
$ <wait command>
$ <repeat TCPIP PINGTEST>
hymcode
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  • @Svend Thank you for that, I did google it but clearly not good enough. I've only just started to learn about OpenVMS and DCL. If you have any recommended help material that would be great. – hymcode Sep 16 '19 at 10:59

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Based on the information provided by @Svend DCL supports a WAIT command formatted as WAIT delta-time

So for example if I wanted to wait 5 seconds before executing the next command the code would be as follows:

$ INQUIRE PINGTEST "Enter IP Address"
$ TCPIP PINGTEST
$! WAIT time format hour:minute:second.hundredth 
$ WAIT 00:00:05
$ TCPIP PINGTEST
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  • you can also provide an absolute time ``sh ti`` shows ``7-NOV-2019 13:58:48`` now if I do ``wait 7-nov-2019 14:00`` it will wait until 14:00, see https://www.parsec.com/os/openvms/undocumented.php – user2915097 Nov 07 '19 at 13:01