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From: angst@cs.uq.oz.au (Angst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Slow output problem (something to do with cres.o?)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 03:26:49 GMT
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There was a thread a couple of months ago about slow output on windows.  I seem
to recall the problem source was a program (ls, I think) linking with a
non-standard cres.o.  I have a vague memory that this caused lots of spurious
interrupts, even after the offending program had finished.  Serving this
interrupts slows down the entire machine (or maybe only screen I/O)
significantly.

Hopefully someone out there remembers this.

What I would like to know is this:

	If there exists a workaround, what is it?

Thanks,

Angst

P.S.  It may have been linked to SKsh as well, but I'm really hazy on that one.

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