Used to calculate the time to execute the next transfer. The EVERY clause is optional. If you specify the EVERY clause, you must specify either every-delta-time or every-absolute-time. If you omit the EVERY clause, the transfer occurs only once. The valid specification for every-delta-time is the delta format used by the $BINTIM OpenVMS system service. The delta time you specify is the time from the completion of the last transfer sequence until the start of the next one. A transfer sequence is the set of transfers from the first attempt until one of the following conditions is met: the execution is successful, the maximum number of retries specified in the RETRY clause has been reached, or a fatal error has occurred (one for which retries are not attempted).