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Fixed a minor typo in the arcadepak's makefile related to DriveWire3 and Becker. Updated makefile with new option nightlytest. Run option is "make nightlytest". You also need to test environment variable TESTSSHDIR and TESTSSHSERVER before using it. Also updated the nightly option so if the SOURCEUSER environment variable is not set it will report it.
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date Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:33:46 -0600
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<refentry id="sleep">
<refnamediv>
<refname>SLEEP</refname>
<refpurpose>Suspend process for period of time</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>sleep</command>
<arg choice="plain">
  <replaceable>tickcount</replaceable>
</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>
This command puts the user's process to &quot;sleep&quot; for a number of
clock ticks. It is generally used to generate time delays or to
&quot;break up&quot; CPU-intensive jobs. The duration of a tick is 16.66
milliseconds.
</para>
<para>
A tick count of 1 causes the process to &quot;give up&quot; its current time
slide. A tick count of zero causes the process to sleep
indefinitely (usually awakened by a signal)

</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Examples</title>
<screen>
OS9: sleep 25
</screen>
</refsect1>
</refentry>