Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!nather
From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What's faster than 'type'-ing a menu screen
Message-ID: <10604@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 03:40:40 GMT
References: <4742@ecsvax.UUCP> <62@dogie.edu>
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: MSDOS type batch file

In article <62@dogie.edu>, anderson@vms3.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
> In article <4742@ecsvax.UUCP> mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow) writes:
> ]In setting up a menu system (IBMPC 4.77 MHz box) using batch files,
> ]I have been using the DOS 'type' command to display the larger menu
> ]screens.  But the screens display quite slowly, about .75-1.0 sec,
> ]using the 'type' command on this machine.  I'm not eager to utilize
> ]ansi.sys substitutes such as nansi.sys or Fansi-Console, because of
> ]possible incompatibilities with other software.  
> 
> Despite your reservations, I think you could give nansi.sys a try.
> I'm unsure of the amount of speed-up you can expect, but I have never
> run into a compatibility problem with it. 

If you want fast screen painting, nansi.sys is unbeatable, in my
experience.  On a PC or XT using a mono display card, a full-screen
Update appears instantaneous.  To get this speed, however, you must
put MS-DOS I/O into "raw" mode via the IOCTL system call, and you
must send the output in one huge gulp.  Writing in C, the fastest
way I have found is with write(), although puts() does pretty well.

I, too, have found no incompatibilities.

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Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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