🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi;

I just started experimenting with Helldiver, and I must add my
thanks to the all those previously posted. However, there is a
critical problem that I need to find a way around...

While scanning through newsgroups, Helldiver hangs windows! It appears
to take exclusive use of the system during the scan, causing the BBS
to die. This obviously is not acceptable.

Details:
  Waffle 1.65, DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, SuperPRO disk compression utility

When I selected "Next Group", the hourglass icon came onscreen, the
clock stopped running (time 10:14) and the BBS paused in the middle of
a dial out session. This state of affairs lasted for 14 minutes!

During that time, the modem dropped the dialout. The phone rang three
times, was answered by the modem, and the connection was dropped. I
could not get anything to respond from the keyboard or mouse. All I
could do was move the hourglass cursor around the screen.

At the end of that time, the clock jumped forward to 10:28, the BBS 
redialed the site it was polling, and all of the things I tried to 
do with the mouse happened.

Details: (more)
   The newsgroup was comp.os.linix - it had 926 files, for a total of
1.4 Megabytes of messages. This was the first time I had run helldiver
and hit that news group.

Suggestion:
   Helldiver drop to a lessor priority when scanning. It should not
take exclusive use of the system.

Note: 
   I used DIR in a MS-DOS window to get the statistics on the
newsgroup. It also took awhile to scan. However, during that time the BBS
was still active and operational.

Bob

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