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From: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MSC delay() routine?
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.041457.17217@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 04:14:57 GMT
References: <1280001@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Reply-To: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Organization: Dept. of Biology, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
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In article <1280001@hpcc01.HP.COM> azarian@hpcc01.HP.COM (Randy Azarian) writes:
>Does anyone have a delay routine written in C?

How about sleep()?
 
>Here is what I have.  It works, but it isn't too consistant. 
>If I say delay(1), sometimes I get a delay for one second, and sometimes I 
>get a microsecond delay.

[...]
>  struct dostime_t time1, time2;
[...]
>  _dos_gettime(&time1); time2=time1;
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
You can't assign a struct like that. You must assign the elements
of a struct individually.


-ping