SLEEP pauses the program indefinitely or for a specified number of seconds, program is unpaused when the user presses a key or when the specified number of seconds has passed.
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:: SLEEP [seconds]
* Seconds are an optional [[INTEGER]] value. If there is no parameter, then it waits for a keypress.
* Any user keypress will abort the SLEEP time.
* SLEEP does NOT clear the keyboard buffer so it can affect [[INKEY$]], [[INPUT]], [[INPUT$]] and [[LINE INPUT]] reads.
* Use an [[INKEY$]] keyboard buffer clearing loop when an empty keyboard buffer is necessary.
* SLEEP allows other programs to share the processor time during the interval.
:''Explanation:'' SLEEP without any arguments waits until a key is pressed, next SLEEP statement uses the argument 2 which means that it will wait for 2 seconds, any number of seconds can be specified.