Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MSC delay() routine?
Message-ID: <1990Mar15.232209.12557@druid.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 90 23:22:09 GMT
References: <1280001@hpcc01.HP.COM> <1990Mar13.041457.17217@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1990Mar13.041457.17217@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) writes:
>In article <1280001@hpcc01.HP.COM> azarian@hpcc01.HP.COM (Randy Azarian) writes:
>>Does anyone have a delay routine written in C?
>
>How about sleep()?
> 
>>Here is what I have.  It works, but it isn't too consistant. 
>>If I say delay(1), sometimes I get a delay for one second, and sometimes I 
>>get a microsecond delay.
>
>[...]
>>  struct dostime_t time1, time2;
>[...]
>>  _dos_gettime(&time1); time2=time1;
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>You can't assign a struct like that. You must assign the elements
>of a struct individually.
>
>
>-ping

Don't you read this newsgroup?  We just went through this discussion a
couple of weeks ago.  Of course you can assign a struct to a struct.  I
think it's time you got rid of your K&R1 and replaced it with K&R2.
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