Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Message-ID: <632@sugar.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 07:38:58 EDT Article-I.D.: sugar.632 Posted: Thu Sep 3 07:38:58 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:47:23 EDT References: <3826@well.UUCP> <586@sugar.UUCP> <2282@cbmvax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 23 Keywords: MIDI Summary: But it still chews up a little bit of time... Andy: Thanks for the code, but it still chews up a few cycles between the return from Wait and the time you set the timer. After a while you'll find your time is off. On page 254 of my edition of the RKM, under the heading "WHY USE TIME ARITHMETIC?", is the procedure for correcting for this effect. It is what I was referring to as "rather complex". This is also what I think the music programs people have been bitching about have missed. It's nothing to do with MIDI per-se. According to the credits, you were a contributing editor to this book, so I'm surprised I have to point this out. This is why I would like to be able to ask the timer.device to wake me every . This sort of thing shouldn't have to be duplicated in every music program. PS: While I'm on the subject of the book. Why couldn't you [corporate you] have escaped the \n" as \en" before running through nroff? I'm not really interested in the zero in numeric register doublequote. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- U <--- not a copyrighted cartoon :->