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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: bug with time(NULL) and rhide?
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> From: mitran AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu (Patrick Mitran)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 1 Feb 2004 20:45:28 -0800
> 
> The bug is only present if I ask Rhide to redirect stdout to a window. 
> Furthermore, I noticed that the time reading does increment by 1 every 60
> seconds (and not every second). I find this a bit odd...

In that case, it's probably a misfeature of Windows: in some cases, it
is known to deliver timer ticks to background DOS programs at a very
slow rate.  Apparently, the wise guys at Redmond think that a DOS
program that is in the background doesn't need to see timer ticks...