-=> Quoting Peter Fitzsimmons to David Muir <=-

 PF> What you want to do would be much easier with DosSleep.

 PF> for(i=0; i<60; i++)
 PF> DosSleep(1000);

    This would be acceptable if it there weren't other threads involved. but 
with numerous threads running, I fear there woud be too much lag in returning 
to this thread for the timing I want.

 PF> This all be "about" 60 seconds.  If you need more precision,  use
 PF> DosStartTimer(),  which does contain a 32bit sample in the online

    I had a look at this but I have the same problem (error 323 invalid 
semaphore handle). Using what function would I asign a semaphore for use by 
this call? (sorry I'm not using "C" and don't have the sample code you 
mentioned above).

 PF> ref,and/or use DosSleep() and DosQuerySysInfo(QSV_MS_COUNT ..) in
 PF> conjunction: 

    I'll see if this does the trick. (assuming I can port it to VP ). 
Thanks for your help Peter.

Dave...

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