ICL 1900 Series George 3 Operating System Commands

TIME (TI)

Function

Causes the program timer to be set to the specified number of seconds or minutes.

Format

TIME milltime

If neither MINS nor SECS is given in the parameter, seconds are assumed.

Forbidden contexts

NO CORE IMAGE

Execution

The program timer counts down on mill time used by subject or object programs.

RESUME, ENTER and LOAD cause the timer to be reset to the value of the PROGTIME installation parameter, if the program timer is not positive.

The program timer's running out is a program event which causes the program to be stopped and a TIME UP message to be sent to the monitoring file system (OBJECT category).

Examples

TIME 5
TIME 5SECS

Error Messages

PARAMETER FORMAT ERROR :z
TIME PARAMETER MISSING