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to: Timo Sirainen
from: Rinat Sadretdinow
date: 1995-12-29 15:31:28
subject: Timeslices

Hello Timo!

Sunday December 24 1995 04:49, Timo Sirainen wrote to All:

 TS> Can I give timeslices to OS/2 in OS/2 prog? Or how should I do this
 TS> kind of program:

 TS> repeat
 TS>   if keypressed then
 TS>     begin
 TS>       c:=readkey;
 TS>       {...}
 TS>     end else
 TS>     begin
 TS>       give_timeslice; { Any way to do this in OS/2 prog? }

Just add a call to DosSleep(1) here. Hope it will be enough. But you have
better create a thread to read the keyboard input that blocks itself if no keys
available.

 TS>     end;
 TS> until quit;

Bye!
Rinat Sadretdinow

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