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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Faster DIR question
Summary: Console device scrolling.
Message-ID: <7706@well.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 09:25:31 GMT
References: <6054@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <257@antares.UUCP> <oXU8h8y00VsfIPj6EI@andrew.cmu.edu> <10248@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Slow-Witted Weapons Experts, Ltd.
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Quote: "Oh no.  I'm getting amnesia and deja vu at the same time."  -- S. Wright

In article <10248@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>I once wrote a dir command that formatted the output in memory,
>counted the number of lines, did a ScrollRaster() on the WB window
>then blasted the text out.  It was plenty fast.
>
	Gee, this sounds a lot like how Sun textwindows (I think) do it.

#define	RUMOR	1

	I think Kodiak (or whoever is revamping the console.device) is
looking into this very thing.  It has my vote, but it'd be even nicer if
this behavior were switchable (via an escape sequence?).

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