I'd just stick up a wait message noclear nowait and send the program into a loop checking the time before and loop until the time is 60 seconds later, then exit the loop and clear the wait window.

>System administrator wants to kick the users off the system. Selects the appropriate menu item. Now I want to give him a message like "Please wait ... Forcing Users off the System" and make it stay up for 60 seconds. Tried "WAIT" with " Timeout 60", but it goes away if the keyboard or mouse is used.
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>How to pause a program for XX seconds.
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>Brenda