### 10.4.8 Pausing a program

The Pause command (written without parentheses) will bring up a Pause informational window and pause Xcas until you click Close in the Pause window. If you enter Pause followed by a number, then Xcas will pause for that number of seconds; entering

Pause 10

will pause Xcas for 10 seconds.

The WAIT command will also pause Xcas; it requires an argument in parentheses. To pause Xcas for 10 seconds, you can enter

WAIT(10)