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From: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Delay for a fraction of a second in C
Message-ID: <695@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 13:13:07 GMT
References: <1145@orion.cf.uci.edu> <2804@ingr.UUCP>
Reply-To: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
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In article <2804@ingr.UUCP> crossgl@ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes:
>In article <1145@orion.cf.uci.edu>, echarne@orion.cf.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne) writes:
>> 
>> The Unix sleep command will only go in increments of one second.
>> let me pause (in the Unix operating system) for a fraction of a second.
>
>You are not going to be able to do this without coding up some kind of
>"delay loop" yourself. 
>Gordon Cross
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                          
Although kludgy, you could do a read with timeout on some file descriptor as-
sociated with a tty.  See the man pages on read(1) and termio(7).
                                                                       
                                                               
                                                                         
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