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11-03-2009

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Yes may be it is taking less time to do the work so the print mesasge which is shown above is appearing in the screen...

So please tell me what I can do to the so that the above print message appears on the screen atleast 2-3 seconds..

and if i have use wait command then tell me where i can use the command? i mean before the above print message or after the print message?

---------- Post updated at 07:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:02 PM ----------

Example for my above scenario,

Code:

num=`cat $REQ2 | grep DateTimeStamp | awk -F":" '{print $2}'`
pgrm=`cat $REQ2 | grep Program | awk -F":" '{print $2}'`
name=cat $REQ2 | grep Name | awk -F":" '{print $2}'`
mail=cat $REQ2 | grep email | awk -F":" '{print $2}'`
clear
    print " *********************************************************"
           print " * Extracting information................................*"
           print " * Make sure that the information provided is correct... *"
           print " * And then close the Request info review to continue... *" 
           print " *********************************************************"
clear
print                                 
   printf " Request Information review "
   print                                  
   print " Number                  : $num"
   print " Program                       : $Pgrm"
   print " Name              : $name"
   print " Email                 : $mail"

I want that print message thing to be appear on the screen for sometime before giving the request info review.. Please help

---------- Post updated at 07:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:20 PM ----------

**************************************************************************************************** ********************************

UPDATE:

Now my problem has been solved.. I have used sleep command to get it done..

MODERATORS PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD AS IT IS SOLVED

Thanks for all you guys

Last edited by Franklin52; 11-04-2009 at 04:26 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!

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