Re: Sleep, Wait or Pause Function?

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From: Ron Sommer
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:52

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> Is there a system call to pause a program's execution for a few
> miliseconds.  Something like sleep(500), or wait(500) to make app
> suspend execution for 500 ms?  I'm using CBuilder 5 Pro.


Strange question. How about Sleep(500):

The Sleep function suspends the execution of the current thread for a 
specified interval.

VOID Sleep(
     DWORD dwMilliseconds 	// sleep time in milliseconds
    );	


Ron Sommer

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