The PAUSE statement temporarily suspends program execution until the user or system resumes execution. For more information, see PAUSE in the A to Z Reference.
The PAUSE statement is a deleted feature in Fortran 95; it was an obsolescent feature in Fortran 90. Compaq Fortran fully supports features deleted in Fortran 95.
For alternate methods of pausing while reading from and writing to a device, see READ and WRITE in the A to Z Reference.