Is there a way to get an ANSI file to pause for 1 or 2 seconds at the end, after its been displayed without user input??

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Is there a way to get an ANSI file to pause for 1 or 2 seconds at the
end, after its been displayed without user input??

There are a couple of ways the easiest in most cases is to use the |DE mci code which delays for half a second. So if you want to pause for 2 seconds just put 4 |DE mci codes at the end of the file.

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On 07 Mar 2022, g00r00 said the following...

Is there a way to get an ANSI file to pause for 1 or 2 seconds at the end, after its been displayed without user input??

There are a couple of ways the easiest in most cases is to use the |DE
mci code which delays for half a second. So if you want to pause for 2 seconds just put 4 |DE mci codes at the end of the file.

thanx

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On 07 Mar 2022, g00r00 said the following...

Is there a way to get an ANSI file to pause for 1 or 2 seconds at the end, after its been displayed without user input??

There are a couple of ways the easiest in most cases is to use the |DE
mci code which delays for half a second. So if you want to pause for 2 seconds just put 4 |DE mci codes at the end of the file.

Okay I have been playing with this and cannot seem to get it to work... So, at the end of the file I add "4 |DE" to delay for 2 seconds or "20 |DE" to delay for 10 seconds... all this without the quotes.

Thanx

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On 08 Mar 2022, IB Joe said the following...

Okay I have been playing with this and cannot seem to get it to work... So, at the end of the file I add "4 |DE" to delay for 2 seconds or "20 |DE" to delay for 10 seconds... all this without the quotes.

I think you'd put:
"|DE |DE |DE |DE" (without the quotes, can probably remove the spaces as well)


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On 08 Mar 2022, Jay Harris said the following...

On 08 Mar 2022, IB Joe said the following...

Okay I have been playing with this and cannot seem to get it to work. So, at the end of the file I add "4 |DE" to delay for 2 seconds or " |DE" to delay for 10 seconds... all this without the quotes.

I think you'd put:
"|DE |DE |DE |DE" (without the quotes, can probably remove the spaces as well)

That did it....
Thanx

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