Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/06/14/04:19:32
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Yury A. Zaitsev wrote:
> >> >> But IMHO djgpp works better under windoze dos session, not under
> >> >> dosemu :(, isn't it?
> >> EZ> I wasn't thinking about DOSEmu.
> >> So, Win9x DOS box is the best environment for DJGPP, isn't it?
> EZ> It depends. For some uses, plain DOS with CWSDPMI is better.
> Which DOS is better? Is it MS-DOS, PC-DOS, some other DOS?
What's the difference between these two?
I use plain MS-DOS, if that matters.
> EZ> If timeouts are the issue, you could use `alarm' or `setitimer' for a
> EZ> much better and more portable code.
> No, I can't use setitimer() with djgpp because setitimer() uses
> uclock() which doesn't works properly under win9x, when program is in
> background mode.
uclock does work on Windows, both in fore- and background programs.
It's the timer tick interrupts that break setitimer in background:
Windows almost stops delivering interrupts to such a program.
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