Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V Keywords: Norton Utilities, graphic characters Message-ID: <1OY4DT3@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 27 Jul 90 21:10:10 GMT References: <175@hafro.is> <1990Jul26.011852.1180@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Jul27.104059.12955@pegasus.com> <1990Jul27.165315.13531@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <1990Jul27.165315.13531@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: > When we're repainting large amounts of the screen, as when scrolling > something, direct writes are a whole lot faster. Yes, and direct writes to the disk are a lot faster too, but people tend to prefer going through the file system. Funny thing, that. > If you hold down an > arrow key to make it scrolll, terminfo/curses has trouble keeping up > but direct writes have no problem. So detect that and jump-scroll. That way people on terminals (or using X, or using a console you don't know about, or whatever) will benefit as well. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`