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Date:	Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:29:00 -0700
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Ouch! SysSleep(), NTP, cpu clock

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> Here's a quick test that seems to confirm your findings.
>
> [j:\tmp]rexxtry say time('E');call syssleep(2.4);say time('E') 0
> 2.420000
>
> This is with the OREXX RexxUtil of circa 2000 which advertises itself as
>
> [j:\tmp]rexxtry say sysutilversion()
> 2.00

Goody. I was worried that my classic rexxlib supported partial seconds
but the orexx one did not.

I just returned to L.A. for a minor emergency. Seems that one of the
in-laws put the truck he was driving into a ditch. And he didn't have
permission from the truck's owner to be driving it . . .

- Peter

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