Mud Game Programming Example 3.1 basic thread

MUD programming
//Ron Penton
//(C) 2003
//Demo03-01.cpp-basic threading
//This program runs three Threads, one which manages the child threads,//And the child threads the alternate 
printing a letter.


#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

#include "threadlib/threadlib.h"

void Printthread (void* data)
{
    //Convert the data passed in into a Charac ter.
    char c = (int) data;

    for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
    {
        cout << C;
        Cout.flush ();
    }
}


int main ()
{
    threadlib::threadid a, b;

    A = Threadlib::create (Printthread, (void*) ' a ');
    b = Threadlib::create (Printthread, (void*) ' B ');


    Threadlib::waitforfinish (b);
    Threadlib::waitforfinish (a);

    char c;
    CIN >> C;

    return 0;
}