From: "beat studer" <beat_studer AT freesurf DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: Win2000 & DJGPP
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:26:48 +0100
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"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote in
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> Steve Chapel wrote:
>
> > The ls command causes the scrollback buffer to be cleared, the scrollbar
to
> > appear and disappear, and screws up the $P$G prompt if it has a long
> > filename.
>
>     This is an NT problem, not limited to Win2k.  I've seen in on NT4.
And
> it's not limited to 'ls', EVERY DJGPP program I've seen causes the
scrollback
> buffer to be emptied (and the dos box does a complete redraw which can
cause
> annoying flicker).

True! Probably it's better to compile unix-utilities to WIN-Console-Apps.
I've done it with 'less' from a linux-distribution (the source-code had all
the preprocessor-directives needed.  Two easy-to-correct errors, then it
worked. The scrollbar disappears, but the buffer is not cleared). BTW i've
downloaded a vim (gVim) for Windows; works also fine and is far more
practical than the one I had on Linux (X)...!
Concerning gcc I didn't have any problems on win2k up to now (not even when
(test)running it 20 times from the command-line, in a normal window). I
always do a clean install,  perhaps that can help avoid some problems.

>     I've also noticed under NT, that a windowed text mode program (that
does
> direct memory writes like RHIDE/SetEdit) updates just as infrequently as
> 320x200x8bit does under Win9x.

Usually I update the screen using puttext(). On NT it's not working smooth
and fast in a normal window, but it's ok, like on DOS or W98, when run in
full-screen-mode!

> --
> (\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)
>
>
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