08-24-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
If you have perl try:
perl -e 'select(undef,undef,undef,.1)'
That .1 means .1 seconds.
That works. It is hard to meassure the time but it is definitely less than 1 second.
Thanks a lot.
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