Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:47:57 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:

> I mostly use it in kbd input loops, or 'press a key to continue' loops. Why
> is this bad???, especially if the program has nothing better to do?

The more portable way to do so is to call `select' (which calls
`__dpmi_yield' internally).  `select' is available on many Unix
systems, and on Linux as well.