Idle dos box/giveup time slice, how?

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From: Michael Golan
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 06:24

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I thought that the DOS program
main() { while(!kbhit()); }

is going to be detected as idle, but alas, under both borand & MS compilers
it does not.
How exactly DOES os2 detect an idling dos program?

Also, if someone knows for sure what the best way for a dos program to
give up its timeslice under OS2 (same as topview? the 'idle' bios call?)
please post (code would be even nicer)

Thanks
  Michael Golan
  mg@princeton.edu

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