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1.1       root        1: .th SLEEP I 11/1/73
                      2: .sh NAME
                      3: sleep \*- suspend execution for an interval
                      4: .sh SYNOPSIS
                      5: .bd sleep
                      6: time
                      7: .sh DESCRIPTION
                      8: .it Sleep
                      9: will suspend execution for
                     10: .it time
                     11: seconds.
                     12: It is used to execute a command
                     13: in a certain amount of time as in:
                     14: .s3
                     15:        (sleep 105; command)&
                     16: .s3
                     17: Or to execute a command every so often as in
                     18: this shell command file:
                     19: .s3
                     20:        : loop
                     21: .br
                     22:        command
                     23: .br
                     24:        sleep 37
                     25: .br
                     26:        goto loop
                     27: .sh "SEE ALSO"
                     28: sleep(II)
                     29: .sh BUGS
                     30: .it Time
                     31: must be less than 65536 seconds.

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