@goto _beg This script implements the sleep command which is missing on Windows 9x machines. Piping the REM command into choice.com somehow disables the console so all you have to do is wait for choice to timeout to the default specification and console control is given back. I decided to implement this script to emulate the sleep command. The argument given to this batch sets the default timeout for choice, in seconds. The following would sleep the console for 4 seconds. I created it for a dialup automation that needed to sleep for about 30 seconds and then do something via the connection. sleep 4 Sean Blankenship :_beg @echo off :_mod @rem|choice.com /n /c:yn /ty,%1 > nul :_end