Little break/pause in a program

[shm83]

Hi to all.

I would like to know if there is a command which allows me to "pause" a program for a concrete time (by code).

What I want to do is launching an eviews program, in which I launch an external software, and after some time (let´s say 3 seconds) it has to read a text file and then continue executing the code.

Another way would be that the Eviews program pauses its own execution until the external software has finished, but I don´t know either if it would be possible.


Thank you in advance

[EViews Gareth]

Sleep

[shm83]

That works perfectly. Also the code to check if other process is finished would be quite difficult.

Thank you Gareth