MB> How much is the error?  Why not loop on a check of the system time,
 MB> being careful to sleep for reasonable amounts of time within the loop?
 MB> If you are dealing with something more critical than this, you need
 MB> to use a system timer. 

        With a 10 second delay, it goes by in 2 seconds or so.  The reason I
        didn't think about checking the system delay is that I figured tp does
        that, which now that I think about it, it probably doesn't.

 JB>         Secondly... where can i find the os/2 api listings?
 MB> In the OS/2 Toolkit, shipped either with your compiler or on Devcon.
 
        I am currently using Turbo Pascal 7.0 - it didn't come with it.  What
        is devcon?

 JB> "We got the might, psycho  mashuganas.  We can't lose  a
 [cut]
 JB> our meat."  - Oi!  [hchaos (hchaos{at}boog.res.wpi.edu)]  !iO
 MB> Am I missing something here?

        Yeah... I really great punk band (nofx).


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