Re: Batch sent X10 command

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:38:56 +0100, "Anthony R. Gold"
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>On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:48:04 -0400, Marc_F_Hult
><MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 17 Jul 2006 10:48:43 -0700, rcochran@xxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
>> <1153158523.929292.219110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>>
>>> Si Ballenger wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:27:27 -0400, MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 	PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 5000 >NUL
>>>>
>>>> another possible approach for a 5 second delay:
>>>>
>>>> ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6 >nul
>>>
>>> A far more elegant approach for a delay is to use the "sleep" command
>>> and tell it how many seconds you want to wait.
>>>
>>> sleep 5
>>>
>>> will wait 5 seconds without depending on any sort of tcp/ip setup
>>> whatsoever.
>>>
>>> --Rich
>>
>> It may be "elegant" but it doesn't actually work within the scope of
what
>> I described ("solution native to XP and TI103" ;-)
>
>I have directory C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\ in PATH
and
>C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\sleep.exe in that directory,
>so it certainly works for me.
>
>Tony

Ah .. Good to know that there is a current, free Microsoft source for that
external and so unlikely to get broken by some future patch  (a particular
sore point with me today as I futz with an auto-damaged server 2003 ... )

Download from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

'Course with respect to the original poster's need, it might be said that
adding an 11.7Mb download, yet another program install, and a raft of
stuff to the computer is unnecessary.

Some might even say that the single ~30-byte lines we posted are " far
more elegant" than another 11.7MB of MSBloat ;-)

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org