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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Another (but completely different) snake game
Message-ID: <1000@burl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 22:29:09 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1000
Posted: Mon Feb  3 22:29:09 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 01:12:26 EST
References: <120@nbs-amrf.UUCP> <219@hoqam.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Summary: 

In article <219@hoqam.UUCP> vedm@hoqam.UUCP (BEATTIE) writes:
>Does anyone know how to get snake2 to work under system V.2.
>I would also like to use it on my unixpc.
>Problems I ran into:
>
>1. No real quick_sleep - maybe a for loop could accomplish this??
>2. getkey.c needs FIONREAD (ioctl)
>
I have a solution to (1), since snake2 only uses a quarter-second
timeout (thanks to Robert Toxen's tick* routines); but NOTE THAT IT
IS A BUSY WAIT, NOT A TRUE IDLE WAIT.  IT WILL PROBABLY KILL YOUR
CPU.

As for (2), I can fix that one, too.

I am going to have to fly to Minneapolis tomorrow to give a 2-day
class on a language I wrote, so I won't be able to touch this until
at least Friday.  If I get snake2 working for SVR2, I'll post the
source (with #ifdef SYS5 for the new stuff) to net.sources.
-- 

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