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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: NAPMS
Message-ID: <13125@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 13 Feb 89 15:53:02 GMT
References: <16444@tiger.oxy.edu> <9613@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <9613@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| In article <16444@tiger.oxy.edu> oberon@oxy.edu (Roman Kingsley Jones) writes:
| >	 I came across the call NAPMS, but I have no idea what it does, and
| >    it isn't in my Man pages.  Could someone please enlighten me?
| 
| Obviously it must be a "nap for yay many milliseconds" function.
| Why worry about it if it doesn't exist?

  Cheap shots aren't like you... if he's trying to convert a program to
run on his system and it uses a call he doesn't have, it's *much* easier
to convert if you know what the call does.

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me