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Re: improve scroll speed on Win9x
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 05:41:32PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 17 May 1999 11:23:09 -0400
>>>> Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> said:
>
>> This patch essentially reverts the changes that were added last
>> month. They were actually contributed by Keith Reynolds. I'm hoping
>> he will be able to comment on the problems that have been noted.
>
>I carefully designed my patch not to spoil the essence of the
>changes to properly support a terminal capability of a settable
>scrolling region.
>
>It is famous that console APIs are unstable and inefficient on
>Win9x. If the same effect can be realized, printing terminal
>characters is preferable than calling console APIs.
The problem was that attributes were screwed up with the previous
way of doing thins.
cgf