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From: ofl@kos.rci.dk (Ole Frank Larsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: sleep() in MSC 5.1 ???
Message-ID: <826@kos.rci.dk>
Date: 8 May 90 08:30:33 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: RC International, Copenhagen, Denmark
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I, who normally writes UNIX programs, was writing a small MS-DOS program
yesterday. When I tried to compile it with MSC 5.1 there was an unresolved
external viz.: _sleep().

Looking in the manual I utterly failed to find any sleep(), wait(),
delay() or whatever this function may be called.

Is it possible that sleep() has not been implemented in the standard
libraries?

I could of course write one myself, but I would like to know whether
anyone has observed this before.


Another short question: How do you empty the keyboard buffer without
having to read all the keystrokes? I have tried fflush(stdin), but this
does not work.

Thank you in advance

-- 
Ole Frank Larsen.                       RC International, Denmark
ofl@rci.dk                              Hackers do it with fewer instructions