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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!davids
  3. From: davids@gardener.lanl.gov (David Simmons)
  4. Subject: Re: WAIT Command
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.203801.26050@newshost.lanl.gov>
  6. Originator: davids@feynman.lanl.gov
  7. Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
  8. Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  9. References:  <BrutHG.1M3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
  10. Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
  11. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:38:01 GMT
  12. Lines: 23
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  15. In article <BrutHG.1M3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, bhostetl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Brian Hostetler) writes:
  16. |>     Is there anything faster than 1 TICK when using WAIT?  I tried
  17. |> WAIT .5 TICK, but of course it wanted an integer.
  18. |> 
  19. |> 
  20.  
  21. You want to wait ~1/120th of a second?  Remember that a tick is an
  22. internal clock cycle, not a second.  Depending on what else is
  23. running, and what type of mac you're running on, a tick is ~1/60th
  24. of a second (your mileage may vary).
  25. -- 
  26.  
  27. David G. Simmons        "There's no problem so awful that you can't
  28. davids@lanl.gov             add some guilt to it and make it even worse!"
  29.                         -Calvin
  30. If I said it, LANL didn't...
  31.  
  32. -- 
  33.  
  34. David G. Simmons        "There's no problem so awful that you can't
  35. davids@lanl.gov             add some guilt to it and make it even worse!"
  36.                         -Calvin
  37.