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From: mwm@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Type & DME
Message-ID: <3717@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 25-May-87 23:31:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 25 23:31:27 1987
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Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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In article <122@gtss.UUCP> chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) writes:
<Its not a poor measure of Blitz since you can't go through life using nothing
<but DME.  Well, I can't.  We gotta see what Blitz does with a variety of
<applications.  I would still like to know if Type's speed was deliberately
<reduced.

I'd be surprised if type was really deliberately slowed down. It just
does more. For instance, try C-c'ing a type, and then a copy to *.
Likewise, type probably checks to see if it needs to convert to hex
before printing each byte, and to see if it needs to print a number at
the start of each line. You might try and chase down Rob Pike's
comments on the bsd "cat" command for insights on this kind of thing.
I do recall a claim of speeding up cat up by a factor of five by
stripping this stuff from it.

<I find people have been mentioning DME for a reason, however.  We are
<fortunate that DME lets us issue commands like, paraphrasing,
<	page down 50 times.
<Many editors would not let us do enough automatic pagings to time them.  So
<now for the results.

I consider this a flaw in dme. Mg will let you page down 50 times. But
it doesn't update the display if there are outstanding commands from
the user. The result of "page down 50 times" is to skip forward 50
pages, and display that page.

	<mike
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