Time Pause

Hi I was wondering how I could have a pause in the program for a certain amount of time. Something like this:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

void wait ( int seconds )
{
        clock_t endwait;
        endwait = clock () + seconds * CLK_TCK ;
        while (clock() < endwait) {}
}

void main()
{
        text=getfile(filename);
        cout << "Please wait";
        foutopen(filename);
        for(int c=0;c<3;c++)
        {       
                cout << ". ";
                wait(1);
        }
        letterfrequency(letfreq, text);
        getwords(words, text);
        sort(words,0,words.length()-1);

        apvector <int> wordfreq(words.length(),-1);

        wordfrequency(wordfreq, words);
        output(letfreq, wordfreq, words, filename);
}

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ignore the apvector and apstring stuff (it's a school program and they're gay and make me use it...
I found this wait function at cplusplus.com and it worked by itself but when i put it into this code it doesn't work right. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I can't find the problem, so try replacing it with this

Code:

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void wait ( long seconds ) {
  clock_t limit, now = clock();
  limit = now + seconds * CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
  while ( limit > now )
    now = clock();
}

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(taken from
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392 )

EDIT
If you can, using a nonstandard funtion is better to spare your poor cpu

Thanks for the help, but i just figured out what was wrong. It kept the other stuff in the output buffer so...

Code:

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cout << "Please wait";
for(int c=0;c<3;c++)
{       
        cout << ". ";
        cout.flush();
        wait(.5);
}

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works. Thanks