From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Accurate timing! Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <38ad4252$1_1 AT news DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 X-Trace: /KtlGU48JXlM7qM/4C0Qtwc3yMHkeQKBbiz4KubnCTc82hr5/qVgDf8DRRQSmGJOL9g7bGQUkxMy!Xw8cnbaSzGyvTph1MLgzcqHZ7NVji+ldv2sQUu6euTXL1zVzNQXTgYkOFkqcZnBID1T0i6DtDcvu!Nbpc1oc= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:49:27 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:49:27 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:57:05 +0500 (MVT), Prashant TR 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? -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/