Done Feature request: Pause more than 2 hours and 46 minutes, but less than infinity

[Claire_CJS]

I want my unknown commands to pause execution for about 12 hours — long enough for me to go out, sleep, wake up, and take notice.

But short enough to continue the process if I am out of my house for a few days, for example on vacation for a week and want my AI processing to continue despite minor glitches.

Alas, the new timer features for pause and inkey seem to top out at /w9999 and error out of you use more than 9999, which works out to 2.7775 hours. So I can pause 1–3 hours, but not the 12 hours I want.

 

[Joe Caverly]

pshell /s "Start-Sleep -Seconds 43200"

...should give you the 12-hour pause that you want.

Ctrl-C will interrupt the pause in PowerShell, but not in TCC.

Ref: Start-Sleep (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) - PowerShell

Joe

 

[vefatica]

DELAY /B 43200

 

[K_Meinhard]

What about DELAY UNTIL ?

 

[Joe Caverly]

R:\>inkey /t /w43200 %%varname 
 [43193]

Countdown timer, which can be stopped with any key.

R:\>inkey /t /w43200 /k"[Ctrl-F9]" `` %%varname 
 [43193]

Countdown timer, which can be stopped with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-F9.
Joe

 

[Alpengreis]

Joe, are you sure that inkey can have a timer > 9999? Because, Claire mentioned that greater values results in a error.

 

[Joe Caverly]

I ran it on my system,
and it displayed the timer count down,
with no error.

I did this with both v33 and v34.

What does it do on your system?

Joe

 

[vefatica]

AFAICT, INKEY and INPUT are OK. PAUSE gives an eror message if you use more than 9999.

 

[Alpengreis]

Thanks for info, Joe and Vince.

I haven't tested it on my system yet. I was just unsure because of Claire's post.

 

[Alpengreis]

JFI:

Tested now here too with v34 and values > 9999:

• INKEY is indeed ok
• INPUT ok too
• DELAY of course is also good
• PAUSE fails

Thanks again.

 

[Alpengreis]

PS: Another variant could be:

timeout /t 43200

 

[rconn]

PAUSE in v34.0.22 or later accepts up to 99999.