I will look at that. Thanks William. Still I seem to remember over here somebody mentioning how to do a pause I guess out of some DLL call.

>>I'd like to know what would be the way to force a pause after execution of a command.
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>>I want to send emails in batch of for example 20. So after sending 20 emails I'd like my application to pause for half on a second. I know that I could use inkey but it's not good enough in making sure that the app will really pause.
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>Use a timer object. They are resource friendly (inkey is not), and they are fairly precise on timing