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For host systems that are known to be slow at times, one way of hiding the pause from the host is to use an announce statement between the send host screen and the get host screen statements. This activity covers part of the time that the host is processing the user-input card number with an announcement that repeats the number to the caller. By the time the announcement is completed, the host may have responded, and the caller does not experience a lag in response time.
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