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Sleep

Suspend execution of a program for a certain time.

Declaration

Source position: osutilsh.inc line 30

procedure Sleep(

  milliseconds: Cardinal

);

Description

Sleep suspends the execution of the program for the specified number of milliseconds (milliseconds). After the specified period has expired, program execution resumes.

Remark: The indicated time is not exact, i.e. it is a minimum time. No guarantees are made as to the exact duration of the suspension.

Documentation generated on: Nov 16 2015