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From: jokim@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John H. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Speeding up scrolling in a window
Summary: How do you do it?
Message-ID: <11404@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 91 07:00:29 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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I am using a 386-33 with an Orchid PDII 1Meg in 800x600x256.  I found
out that when I'm using my 2400bps MNP5 modem with MNP5 enabled, the
modem receives information faster than the Windows Terminal program
or WinQVT can scroll it.  Even when I drop down to 800x600x16, the
scrolling speed is still too slow to keep up with the modem.  This
is rather frustrating since I timed the display rates with a stopwatch
and found no difference between MNP5 enabled and disabled, making MNP5
nearly useless.

However, I happened to try Procomm 2.4.3 in a window in 386/enhanced
mode and found that if the display fell behind the modem, rather than
scroll up methodically line by line as Terminal or WinQVT does, it
would jump up as many lines as necessary to catch up.  I'd use Procomm
expect it seems to gobble up more CPU time and you can't cut and paste
from it, which I tend to do a lot of.

Soooo, (1) does anyone know how to speed up the scrolling speed of
Terminal or WinQVT short of buying a new super-expensive video card,
or (2) does anyone know of a Windows communication program that scrolls
to keep up with the modem as Procomm in a window does?

Maybe whoever it is that writes the code for WinQVT can make an option
to get rid of the line-by-line scrolling.
-- 
John H. Kim                 | (This space to be filled when I
jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
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