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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!dell
- From: dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: HELP: Status line disappears in Waffle for DOS
- Message-ID: <77547@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:39:13 GMT
- References: <sT4uXB2w165w@cibbs.UUCP>
- Organization: I mistook my BBS for a hat
- Lines: 18
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- >Does anyone else have the problem whereby the top status line disappears when
- >the screen is scrolled. The status bar is reclaimed when the screen is cleared
- >by the data on the status line is lost and whatever text happened to be there
- >is kept from scrolling.
-
- >This is extremely annoying as I have no idea who is every online. My rumaging
- >through the source code has turned up nothing other than it appears Tom is not
- >trapping all the necessary DOS/BIOS calls required to keep the status line on
- >the top of the screen. This problem make me feel like re-writing the DOS.C
- >file from scratch using only Borland's CONIO functions....
-
- No, it is not as simple as that. If you did this, anyone with a CGA
- (and certain other kinds of video cards) would kill you. CONIO is incredibly
- slow under those circumstances. What we have now (a mix) is a compromise
- that's the fastest on average for all systems. But it still isn't perfect on
- all systems (ie, yours.)
-
- --Tom
-