Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Jul27.165315.13531 at esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl at esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
> When we're repainting large amounts of the screen, as when scrolling
> something, direct writes are a whole lot faster.

Yes, and direct writes to the disk are a lot faster too, but people tend
to prefer going through the file system. Funny thing, that.

> If you hold down an
> arrow key to make it scrolll, terminfo/curses has trouble keeping up
> but direct writes have no problem.

So detect that and jump-scroll. That way people on terminals (or using X,
or using a console you don't know about, or whatever) will benefit as well.
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