How to sleep for five seconds in a batch file/cmd [duplicate]

Answer 1

I wrote a powerbasic program wait.exe, where you pass a millisecond parameter to it in your batch file

wait 3000
system('c:/windows/system32/SnippingTool.exe')

the code for the EXE:

FUNCTION PBMAIN()
  c$ = Command$
  s! = Val(c$)*1000
  Sleep s!         
END FUNCTION