Freeing time in DOS Window

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From: Kevin N. Carpenter
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:27

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I have a DOS app. that controls some hardware hanging off my machine.  This
application "wakes up" every 60 seconds to adjust the hardware.  Currently
the 60 seconds is consumed by a TC++ 2.0 DELAY(60) statement.  I've noticed
(via Pulse) that this Delay statement appears to consume CPU.

Is there any call/interrupt/etc. that I could issue that would just tell
OS/2 to go away for 60 seconds and stop consuming the CPU?  All else failing,
I'll do my own time comparision and issues DESQview API calls to free the
remaining time in each time slice.  If I load OS2SPEED first, this will do
the trick (it works for FrontDoor and other DESQview aware programs).  I'm
just looking for a cleaner method.
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Kevin Carpenter       Internet:  kncarp@nicsn1.monsanto.com
Monsanto Company      Fidonet:   1:100/215.0 (home)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Opinions expressed are those of the author, not the company he works for.

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