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From: dan@kfw.COM (Dan Mick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MSC delay() routine?
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.200914.629@kfw.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 90 20:09:14 GMT
References: <1280001@hpcc01.HP.COM> <1990Mar13.041457.17217@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: uunet!charyb!dan (Dan Mick)
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In article <1990Mar13.041457.17217@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) writes:
|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.


#define FLAME

OF COURSE YOU CAN ASSIGN A STRUCT LIKE THAT!  Post answers *after* you know
what you're talking about, dammit!  EVERY C COMPILER I'VE USED ALLOWS STRUCT
ASSIGNMENT, *MUCH LESS* Turbo C!!!!!

#undef FLAME