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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: stopwatch
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.163859.18888@uwasa.fi>
Date: 10 Jan 91 16:38:59 GMT
References: <25457@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <25457@adm.brl.mil> EKSTROM%uhavax.decnet@uhasun.hartford.edu writes:
>
>   I am looking to get/write a program in Pascal that will act as a 
>stopwatch.  The problem is that I would like it to be memory resident (ie: it
>should be able to run in the background while another program is running).
>What I am doing is developing a lap counting system for radio-controlled cars.
>The races are 5 minutes in length and I want to be able to run my lap counting
>program and have this stopwatch displayed on the screen.  When the stopwatch
>reaches 5 minutes, I would like to have a buzzer go off, signaling the end of
:

Quite a coincidence.  I have been experimenting with writing tsr
clock programs and this is something I might well consider.  The
problem is, though, that it will only work in the text mode. 

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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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