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- From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Why is initial screen I/O so ssslllooowww???
- Message-ID: <gilbertd.713869736@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 09:08:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.123858.15682@fel.tno.nl> <s+_ym0g@rpi.edu>
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- In <s+_ym0g@rpi.edu> petrasg@berra.cs.rpi.edu (George Petras) writes:
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- >If you need fast console output, you can try the program tconsole which
- >speeds things up considerably, especially on Sun's graphics boxes. I did
- >an archie search and it can be found at svin02.info.win.tue.nl (131.155.70.100)
- >in your neck of the woods via ftp.
-
- Yeh - tconsole can also do a few other things - it can give you any
- font you like , and it can use that space around the normal
- text window which windowing systems use (you did pay for it so
- you may as well use it!). You can also invert the screen really
- easily. So I've got something liking 160x100 text lines if I wanted
- - the only problem is that VI bombs out at those widths!
-
- The other thing is that the text output is non-multitasking. If your
- using say an ELC like we are to do a bit of serving, then if you look
- at a large bit of text outside a window system the network stops while it
- waits for your disc.
-
- Dave
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