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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Gerhard W. Gruber" <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:43:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: bash eats cycles
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"Gerhard W. Gruber" <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at> wrote:
> Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
> 
> > The signifikant load is not in the idle time. It is when the dos box is
> > active. Let's assume that I start the compiler and it runs through. After
> > this is finished I switch to another dos box and start the command. As long
> > as the dos box is on screen the load is significant. I have to minimize the
> > box and then everything is back to normal but keeping the window visible is
> > a pain.
> 
> I just noticed also that the window really has to be visible to start
> blocking. It just happend that I had a dos box active but completely hidden
> behind another window and the load was ok. After closing the hiding window
> it sufficed for the dos box to become visible again and it started to slow
> dow. It might be that this is a bug in NT rather in bash, though.

Do you know about any DOS program that doesn't have this effect on 
NT? (don't tell me command.com)

If not then I guess that's a NT feature.

Doesn anybody know how NT refresh the screen of a boxed task? W95 is 
relative smart, looks like NT isn't.

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