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revc@Garg.Campbell.CA.US (Bob Van Cleef) writes:

> 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!

Be sure your Waffle window time slice is substantially more than HD's.
I have mine set at 500fg/500bg.  Windows desktop apps are set at 50/50.
Slows things down considerably when working, but that's the price of
Windows.
 
> 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.

During this time, Windows does not refresh the screen, so it is really
difficult to tell what is happening during connects.

Also, be sure your waffle window is set to work as a bg task.  Check your
settings. (Click on the left window-bar square.)
 
> 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.

HD does not handle large groups gracefully.
 
> Suggestion:
>    Helldiver drop to a lessor priority when scanning. It should not
> take exclusive use of the system.

Rhys is aware of the problem.

steve

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