>i added a WAIT TIMEOUT 4 after DO PLASHSCREEN. the splash screen was only a flicker so i wanted to make sure it stayed up at least 4 seconds. the WAIT seems to be causing a "Press any key to continue ..." message to appear on my splash screen. i set TALK OFF but that did not help.
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>any ideas
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>brenda

Hi Brenda!

FUNCTION Sleep
LPARAMETERS tfDuration
SET cursor off
WAIT "" timeout tfDuration
SET cursor on
RETURN