Thread: program delay (sleep)

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    program delay (sleep)

    hey every1, a quick question:
    i would like my program to sleep for a indicated period of time.
    I am using : sleep(2000);
    I have been told that this should compile and the 2000 is in milliseconds. Is this correct or do i need to include a certain file as it is not compiling, also is it correct that the specified time is in milliseconds?
    thanks alot for ur time
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    Talking change to question

    i have found out that the sleep fucntion is in the windows.h libary. Is there an equivalent to this that can be used with unix
    thanks alot

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    I think unix may have a function called delay().

    delay(num_of_sec);

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    According to this thread, there is a sleep() on POSIX systems.

    http://www.cprogramming.com/cboard/s...ighlight=sleep

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    In <windows> it is Sleep(milliseconds) // note the capital 'S'

    in dos.h for Borland Turbo CLC it is sleep(seconds), but the compiler gives you a warning message that the sleep function is obsolete. (It isn't supported in MSVC++... but since I use borland, I still use it from time to time)
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    If you have a delay/sleep executable in unix (you will have to look around a bit) you can run it from within your executable to provide a pause.

    I remember there being one, but since I am on a win box right now, I cannot tell you what the binary name is...
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