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Apparantly, the Sleep function does not work on a console application. Is that true<br />

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Apparantly, the Sleep function does not work on a console application. Is that true


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That is NOT true. I have written console applications that use Sleep. The console applications have access to most of the Win32 API.<br />
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That is NOT true. I have written console applications that use Sleep. The console applications have access to most of the Win32 API.



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I do not dispute what u are saying. Unfortunately, I have not been able to compile with the sleep API. I have included windows.h, winbase.h. Also, added Kernel32 in the link lib setting. <br />
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Could u tell me which header file is required to compile. Currently, the compiler tells me that sleep in a unknown identifier.<br />

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I do not dispute what u are saying. Unfortunately, I have not been able to compile with the sleep API. I have included windows.h, winbase.h. Also, added Kernel32 in the link lib setting.

Could u tell me which header file is required to compile. Currently, the compiler tells me that sleep in a unknown identifier.


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All you need is winbase.h. Make sure you are using Sleep() and not sleep().<br />
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All you need is winbase.h. Make sure you are using Sleep() and not sleep().




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I am trying to write a C++ console program running in NT Server-DOS process which would be able to do a countdown of time defined by the user as well as exit the countdown based on the user input. The current program takes a lot of system CPU resource to countdown to a pre-determined time interval. DOes WIN32 provide an API which will return time without eating the CPU resource.
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I am trying to write a C++ console program running in NT Server-DOS process which would be able to do a countdown of time defined by the user as well as exit the countdown based on the user input. The current program takes a lot of system CPU resource to countdown to a pre-determined time interval. DOes WIN32 provide an API which will return time without eating the CPU resource.

NT Timer Routine

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