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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 27 May 1999 12:02:18 -0400
To:	Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
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Subject:	Re: improve scroll speed on Win9x
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In-Reply-To:	<s1slnea3nwj.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>; from Kazuhiro Fujieda on Thu, May 27, 1999 at 05:41:32PM +0900

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 AT cygnus DOT 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

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