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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:21:03 +0000
From: Ian Miller <itmiller AT dra DOT hmg DOT gb>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Exact timming II
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > uclock() will give negative numbers if the OS prevents it from
> > reprogramming the timer chip (or resets it).
> 
> Did anybody who saw negative elapsed times check to see whether the timer
> has been reset to its default mode?  If not, can somebody check that now?
> Thanks.

I just got this series of messages this morning. I'll see what I can
come up with this evening. (I'm hoping that there is a
get_timer_mode() library function because I probably don't know
enough about programming the hardware otherwise.)

Regards,
-- 
Ian Miller, Dorset, UK
DJGPP 2.01, Win95 DOS box (LFN undefined, FNCASE=y)