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From: Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Accurate timing!
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:49:27 GMT
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:57:05 +0500 (MVT), Prashant TR
<prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Manni Heumann wrote:
>
>> It won't work under windows, you should not try to access a floppy drive with 
>> the timer ticking faster, and your system time will be wrong afterwards. 
>
>Shouldn't try using any disk drive with a modified timer.

Then what about Allegro?  If you install_timer() and then
fopen("A:/foo.txt", "wb"), what blows up?


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