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Section: Input/Ouput Functions
The pause function can be used to pause execution of FreeMat scripts. There are several syntaxes for its use. The first form is 
pause
 This form of the pause function pauses FreeMat until you press any key. The second form of the pause function takes an argument 
pause(p)
 where p is the number of seconds to pause FreeMat for. The pause argument should be accurate to a millisecond on all supported platforms. Alternately, you can control all pause statements using: 
pause on
which enables pauses and
pause off
 which disables all pause statements, both with and without arguments.