sleep() does not work in Watcom C/C++ 10.0??

[Kwan]

Hi,

I've tried to use sleep or delay function in (Watcom C/C++
wcl386) my programs, but these function doesn't have any
effect..

Anybody knows why??

Thanks in advance

Reply: m...@picasso.ece.curtin.edu.au

Kwan Wu

[kmc...@vms.cis.pitt.edu]

> Hi,
> I've tried to use sleep or delay function in (Watcom C/C++
> wcl386) my programs, but these function doesn't have any
> effect..
>
> Anybody knows why??
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>

That's funny..........I've been using tons of delay() statements
in my game under Watcom and they work fine. I'm using Watcom 10.5
and Dos4gw as the extender. Maybe your not including the right
lib. I'm including dos.h for my lib and it works. If you need
some source code to try and compile.....let me know.

later,
Kirk

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[Matt Francis]

kmc...@vms.cis.pitt.edu wrote:

>> Hi,
>> I've tried to use sleep or delay function in (Watcom C/C++
>> wcl386) my programs, but these function doesn't have any
>> effect..
>>
>> Anybody knows why??
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
> That's funny..........I've been using tons of delay() statements
> in my game under Watcom and they work fine. I'm using Watcom 10.5
> and Dos4gw as the extender. Maybe your not including the right
> lib. I'm including dos.h for my lib and it works. If you need
> some source code to try and compile.....let me know.

> later,
> Kirk

Yeah, most likely you haven't included the right .h's. My setup is
~same as above, and I do this /all/ the time... try using printf()
without relevant .h and see how many yuks you have.

-Arinan

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[Derek Burnheim]

>> Hi,
>> I've tried to use sleep or delay function in (Watcom C/C++
>> wcl386) my programs, but these function doesn't have any
>> effect..
>>
>> Anybody knows why??
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>

sleep() is the wrong function, it's for use in multiprocessing
applications.

You sound like you want delay(), which I'm pretty sure wc supports.
Check the docs if this is wrong, but I think the syntax is
delay(n)
where n is the number of milliseconds to delay.

hope this helps
Derek

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