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Re: sleep( ) in DOS32

• Posted by Rubens Monteiro Luciano <rml at rubis.trix.net> Nov 24, 2004
• 551 views

Thanks Kat,

I didn=B4t find this in a quick search in the euforum.
This solve the problem.
What I mean with "stay free" is to not use 100% of the processor
like
for i=1 to 1000000 do
blablabla
end for

Rubens

At 18:24 24/11/2004, you wrote:
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>On 24 Nov 2004, at 17:17, Rubens Monteiro Luciano wrote:
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >  How do I sleep less than 1 second in DOS32 ?
> >  Is there anyway to simulate a sleep of 500 miliseconds, for example ?
> >  The system must stay free during this time.
> >  Maybe it=B4s time to have a sleep_miliseconds( ) function...
>
>Since dos is neither re-entrant nor multitasking, what is it to stay free =
for?
>
>On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:09:25 -0800, rudy toews
><guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
> > Re: Eu locking harddrives
><http://statik.topica.com/lists/read/images/icon_pencil.gif>  >   BTW: How=

> > about allowing any atom as argument for sleep(), not only an integer? I=

> just
>got an error message from Eu,
> > because I tried to call sleep(0.5).
> >
> > --for .exw (WinDoze)
> > include dll.e
> > include misc.e --for old sleep()
> > constant
> > k32=open_dll("kernel32"),
> > zSleep=define_c_proc(k32,"Sleep",{C_UINT})
> > --usage:
> > --c_proc(zSleep,{x})
> > --where x is in MILLISECONDS! --Zero allowed
> > --demo is:
> > printf(1,"%s\n",{"Start"})
> > c_proc(zSleep,{3500})
> > printf(1,"%s\n",{"3.5 seconds later..."})
> > sleep(2) -- ;)
> >
> > Nice, thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> >    Juergen
>
> > http://www.ListFilter.com/cgi-
>bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=A&fromYear=9&toMonth=A&toYear=9&postedB
>y=otterdad&keywords=sleep
>
> > Yours, OtterDad
>
>Kat
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