Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!proto!joe From: joe@proto.com (Joe Huffman) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Generating delays Message-ID: <1991Mar04.170140.2438@proto.com> Date: 4 Mar 91 17:01:40 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Prototronics @ Sandpoint, Idaho Lines: 30 melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >I need to be able to generate delays of around 1/2 second. Anyone >have a good way of doing this? I'm using MS C 6.0. The best I can >come up with is a 1 second delay. Depending on your machine that may be the best you can do. For example the Hitachi 2020 (sold in Japan only) only generates (at least 4 years ago when I was looking at the problem) a clock tick once per second. For more convential machines you can use msleep(500) (millisecond sleep) if you were using the Zortech compiler. >Also, how does MS C compare with Borland C++ and Zortech C++? Borland If MSC doesn't have this function or handle C++ code then it's deficient in at least two areas. Other comments from me about MSC would be too biased to be worth your time reading. --- Zortech mailing list: send email to 'ztc-list-request@uunet.uu.net' with: Add: your-user-name@your-machine-name In the body of the message. --- Send Zortech bug reports to 'zortech-bugs@zortech.com' Send requests for educational discounts to 'zortech-ed@zortech.com' --- Zortech is my major source of income. Statements about them or their competitors cannot be totally without bias. -- joe@proto.com