Simple Loop to Introduce a Delay in TI

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Simple Loop to Introduce a Delay in TI

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Just a simple TI snippet to introduce a delay into a TI.
On my hardware mxInternalLoop=1250000 gives a delay of 1 second, so setting mxLoop=30 gives a 30 second delay.
I needed to use this when using ExecuteCommand to copy a large file, see this thread.

Note that I had to move mxLoop out to 60 to get a satisfactory delay that ensured that the server had finished doing whatever it was doing that was stuffing everything up.

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#Vary this to give length
mxLoop=30;

ixInternalLoop=1;
ixLoop=1;
mxInternalLoop=1250000;

While(ixLoop<=mxLoop);
   ixLoop=ixLoop+1;
   ixInternalLoop=1;
   While (ixInternalLoop<=mxInternalLoop);
       ixInternalLoop=   ixInternalLoop+1;
    End; 
End;
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