in reply to While loop insanity

I'll confirm that this works exactly as you would expect under NT4 sp6/AS v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.

ie. It loops printing then time until a keystroke is entered, pauses for input, the continues printing the time once the input is completed with the enter key.

Nah! Your thinking of Simon Templar, originally played by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy

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