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From: tli@phakt.usc.edu (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: Can Unix sleep in terms of mili/micro?
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Date: 10 Sep 90 06:43:42 GMT
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In article <24437@adm.BRL.MIL> TAYBENGH%NUSDISCS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
    
            Can Unix sleep in terms of mili or mirco second? I am aware that
    sleep() can only sleep in terms of second. Please specify the Unix Dialect
    when u reply. Thanks.
    
BSD derived systems provide usleep(3) which does what you want.  

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