Tera Term Language: wait doesn't wait for timeout to end

Question

I'm trying to write a macro to speed up the setting up of a test.

What I have to do is sending a bunch of config commands to my board, and wait for a 'ok' after each one. The last command is the one that starts the test, and after that I want to wait up to 30 seconds for a certain answer. The problem is that even if I set up a timeout, all commands are sent one after another without waiting for the timeout and the test ends as soon as it starts. Am I missing something?

Here is my code:

send 'command 1'

timeout = 5             ;timeout set to 5 seconds
wait 'ok'

send 'command 2'

timeout = 5             ;timeout set to 5 seconds
wait 'ok'

send 'command 3'

timeout = 5             ;timeout set to 5 seconds
wait 'ok'

send 'command 4'

timeout = 5             ;timeout set to 5 seconds
wait 'ok'

send 'command 5'

timeout = 5             ;timeout set to 5 seconds
wait 'ok'

send 'command 6'

timeout = 5             ;timeout set to 5 seconds
wait 'ok'

send 'test start'

timeout = 30                ;timeout set to 30 seconds
wait 'the response I want'

if result = 1 goto pass
if result = 0 goto fail

Answer 1

Stumbled over your question while looking for a different issue.

Timeout is used to say "If thing has not been done in X time, continue" and only needs to be set once. You also want to set it before you send your commands.

In your case it would be

Timeout = 5
Send 'Command'
Wait 'OK'
Send 'Command'
Wait 'OK'
Timeout = 30
Send 'Command'
Wait 'OK'

You might also want to add a slight pause between them with MPause to keep them from stumbling over each other like old modems tend to do.

Send 'Command'
Wait 'OK'
MPause 50
Send 'Command'
Wait 'OK'

Depending on what your doing it might also be worth changing the Sends and Waits to SendLn and WaitLn, these will send a new line with the commands and wait for a response with a new line, and it's pretty common.

Warning though, TeraTerm is a bit of a buggy mess and is a bit limited. If you can use a real language I'd do so.