Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!styx!twg-ap!amdahl!pyramid!decwrl!sun!saber!imagen!turner From: turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: Uudecode wierdidities, ue 3.7 (from Turner*Imagen),etc. Message-ID: <567@imagen.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 18:05:52 EDT Article-I.D.: imagen.567 Posted: Tue Sep 16 18:05:52 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Sep-86 22:47:55 EDT References: <8609060233.AA26238@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <267@myrias.UUCP> <1296@trwrb.UUCP> Organization: The Houses of the Holy Lines: 34 > monitors for several weeks now. By the way, the color version looks great! > My only complaint about uE3.7 is the SSLLOOWW disk access time (blame it > on "gemdog" ;-). > > > > > > -- > __________ ______ ____ _____ ___ > /_________//___ ||__|/____|/__/ Richard E. Sansom > ___ ____/ / ____________ TRW Electronics & Defense Sector > / / / /\ < | /| / One Space Park Drive, R3/1028 > / / / / \ \ | / | / Redondo Beach, CA 90278 > /__/ /__/ \__\|__/ |__/ {...decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!sansom *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** The problem is further complicated by the need to keep file i/o as genereic as possible so that it works on the max number of systems and that tends to limit you to getc, putc, scanf, printf etc. yeeechhh!!!! i tried buffering the i/o manually but the speed advantage gained is lost in the access time for the floppy so all the fancy (read hacked) code came out a wash. sorry -- ---- It aint life that gets me down, it's gravity Name: James M. Turner Mail: Imagen Corp. 2650 San Tomas Expressway, P.O. Box 58101 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101 AT&T: (408) 986-9400 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!turner CompuServe: 76327,1575 GEnie : D-ARCANGEL