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From: thomson@utah-cs.UUCP (Richard A Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Frienndly Sleep (not hogging the CPU)
Keywords: Sleep
Message-ID: <5405@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 06:24:54 GMT
References: <662@wolf.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Richard A Thomson)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <662@wolf.UUCP> uzun@wolf.UUCP (Roger Uzun) writes:
> I was wondering if there was a friendly way for an amiga Process to
>Sleep for a period of time (in C).  Currently to sleep for say, 
>1 second I do a 
>
>for(i=0;i<50;i++)
> WaitTOF();
>
>Is there a better, possibly more precise way of waiting for a period
>of time without hogging the CPU.
>
>Thanks
>-Roger

There is a DOS routine called Delay() that does exactly what you want.
Use the form:

	Delay(ticks);	/* there are 50 ticks per second */

So to get a delay of 1 second, you would use:

	Delay(50);

				-- Rich Thomson