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DVPTAME Released to the Public Domain, 1991.
DVPTAME lets DESQview suspend programs before their time slice is up if
they are frequently polling the keyboard to check for a keystroke. You
specify how many times the program is allowed to check for a keystroke in
one clock tick (1/18 of a second), and DESQview does the rest. No extra
programs to load, no shared programs, etc.
Usage 1: DVPTAME = <dvp-file>
Report the current polling limit
Usage 2: DVPTAME <n> <dvp-file>
Set the polling limit to <n> keyboard polls per clock tick
In both cases, <dvp-file> is the FULL filename of the .DVP for the program
you wish to tame.
In many cases, DVPTAME will perform just as well as the shareware TAME.
However, TAME can suspend programs which don't poll the keyboard often
but make their idleness known in other ways, and can tame programs which
poll the keyboard frequently even while they are still doing useful work.
Ralf Brown
ralf@cs.cmu.edu
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