# Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
#
# This file is part of Octave.
#
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# later version.
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function tic ()

# usage: tic
#
# Set a wall-clock timer.
#
# See also: toc, clock, etime, cputime

  if (nargin != 0)
    warning ("tic: ignoring extra arguments");
  endif

  global _time_tic_called;

  _time_tic_called = clock ();

endfunction