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Re: dos wait loop

• Posted by Tone Škoda <tskoda at email.si> Mar 30, 2005
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Kat wrote:

> I tend to use something along these lines for dos apps with win95 if i need 
> the task to wait, but do things periodically while waiting:
> 
> sleeptime = 60
> temp = 0
> junk = 1 -- 1 = sleep ; 0 = return to OS
> while temp < sleeptime do
>   sleep(junk)
>   temp += 1
>  -- do other stuff once a sec here
> end while
> 


this works! the only problem is that sleep() takes only whole numbers (i want
interval smaller than one second).