Sleep() funtion in XP

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From: Francisco Villa
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:20

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I use Sleep () inside a thread to separate bytes to be writen to ther serial
port..

MyPort->Write(myByte);
t0=GetTickCount();
Sleep (3);
t01=GetTickCount ()-t0;


On win 98
 t01 values 3 ==> oK.

But it appears to not count miliseconds propertly on Xp.

On XP t01 values 16 or 15.


Any Clue?

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