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Posted by selvaraj on May 24, 2001 at 6:49 AM

> I want to create two threads one which prints date every second and another which prints my name every 5th second.
> Do i need to create two classes with saparate run methods?
> Pls. Help

No need to great two classes and two threads.u can print it in single thread itself.do the following steps

public void run(){
count=0;
for(;;){
//Display ur name
count++;
if(count>=5){
count=0;
//display the date
try{
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}catch(Exception e)){}
}
}