From: bdarnell AT vnet DOT net (Ben Darnell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: rawclock returning incorrect (?) values
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 05:17:06 GMT
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On Sat, 08 Mar 1997 02:24:10 GMT, ville DOT sjoberg AT swipnet DOT se (Ville
Sjoberg) wrote:

>I'm having trouble with the rawclock() function. According to the docs
>it should return the number of tics since midnight. That should make a
>pretty good function for srandom(), I thought. But the following code:

The docs are wrong on this one.  rawclock() returns the number of tics
since the first time you called it (i.e. it always returns 0 the first
time)
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