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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sleep()ing less than a second
Message-ID: <15026@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 19 Dec 89 20:30:53 GMT
References: <89348.231211BACON@MTUS5.BITNET> <2754@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <1937@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <1937@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>[how to sleep less than a second?]
>Common names are mspeel (in ms), usleep (in us, but clock tick
>resolution), and nap (ms again).
>
>  nap is xenix and 5.3.2 and later ...

However the argument to nap() in Sys V/386 is in HUNDREDTHS of a second,
not in milliseconds.  V/386 CURSES provides a separate napms() function
for millisecond precision.

Go figure.

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