Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:43:06 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <199710312143.PAA28683@manatee.dms.auburn.edu>
From: Darrel Hankerson <hankedr AT dms DOT auburn DOT edu>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971030115108.348K-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:51:51 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: slow startup on less (lss332b.zip)
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On 30 Oct 1997 Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

   > less (lss332b.zip) has a several-second startup time on Win95
   > (486-66, 16meg).  There is no delay on Win-3.1 (Pentium-75).

   Please tell more.  Exactly how did you call Less, and what is included
   in your definition of ``startup time''?

Startup time = time from pressing Enter to a change on screen.  It
takes several seconds, and is same on repeated runs.  There are no
network disks (although machine is tcp/ip connected).  

The machine is a 486-66 16meg which has been used for Linux for some
time, but only recently for testing Win-95.  No special hardware other
than a Kingston ethernet board.  IDE CDROM, no SCSI, S3-801 video at
640x480x256.

   I use Less a lot on DOS, Windows 3.X and Windows 95, and don't see any
   such slow start on any of these systems.

less works fine on Win-3.1 (on a different machine), and from the
Linux dosemu environment (with DOS 5) on the Win-95 machine.

   it seems that this problem is DJGPP- or Windows-specific,
   so it makes sense to try to understand what's going on before
   reporting this as a bug to the author.

I thought perhaps this was a known bug.  I'll look for another 
Win-95 machine for testing.  Thanks for your note.

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--Darrel Hankerson hankedr AT mail DOT auburn DOT edu