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From: m81_claes@tekn01.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Timer question
Message-ID: <427@tekn01.chalmers.se>
Date: 15 Dec 88 09:38:20 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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I  have  been  trying  to  write  a  RTTY  encoding  program,  but  have
encountered problems  using the  timer.device. My  problem is  that when
reading the current time  the shortest time  "unit" is 1/50s  (= 20 ms),
ie. if i read current  time, then "wait", then  read it again, the "wait
time" i get is allways a multipel of 20ms!. 

  I have tried using the timer as an "alarm clock" in the ms range, and
it works fine (ok, you sometimes get to sleep 1ms or two to long, but
never 20)

  Is there anybody out there that knows if this is the way it is, or am
i doing something wrong?

  If this does not work i have to use the CIA's to check the time.

                     Claes Walther
                     CLWA@Gamma.Me.Chalmers.Se
                     Chalmers University of Technology
                     G|teborg Sweden

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