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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: John Baleshiski
date: 1996-02-16 04:44:56
subject: delay/api

MB> I think you might be the victim of a much simpler problem.  The
 MB> argument to DosSleep() is in milliseconds -- thousandths of a second
 [cut]
 MB> result, its error is strictly monotonic: the call can take longer than
 MB> you ask for, but never shorter.

        Which is the opposite than what I am getting.  I made a routine using
        the system clock and it works fine now, but the thing that is bugging
        me is _WHY_ is wasn't working properly under OS/2.

 MB> Available for FReq (1:323/107) or download (+1 401 944 8498).  I'm
 MB> just up the street from you, anyway.

        I'm assuming this is your BBS.  I'll probably see you soon then.

 JB>> "We got the might, psycho mashuganas.
 MB> Am I missing something here?
 JB>         Yeah... I really great punk band (nofx).
 MB> They should have called themselves the "Psycho Meshuganas," then.

        Bah...  I love them.

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