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List:       gnuplot-info-beta
Subject:    Re: suggestion
From:       "Alexander Mai" <st002279 () HRzpUB ! tu-darmstadt ! DE>
Date:       2000-03-15 20:17:02
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:38:21 +0100 (MET), Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Angelo Fausti Neto wrote:
>
>> hello, the command pause could works with real numbers in order to
>> animate frames in intervals of 0.1 seconds, this is very important for
>> my purpose that is simulation in physics,
>
>In principle, it might do that, but there's an implementation problem: we
>would need a solution for pausing for less than one seconds that works
>reliably and portably on many platforms (all Unixes, DOS, Atari, Windows,
>OS/2, to name some), and such a beast has long since been known by the C
>gurus not to exist.

Check out the C-FAQ, it covers this.
(http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html)


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