Who can write me a wee bit of software?

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Hello Colin, there is no SLEEP tool native to any modern Windows install, it is a utility that must be installed, hence why I avoid referring to it.  Yes there are other ways to do it, including timeout, I just find PING is handy and is universal across most Operating systems, which streamlines my scripting efforts.

I stand corrected.

One advantage to using TIMEOUT is that a keystroke during the timer period will exit the timeout timer.