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Article #14411

PROCOMM Problems... relief is near...

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From: tj
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1986 04:24
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I have experienced a lot of problems when using PROCOMM 2.4.x and having
it not keep up with the cursor keys and sometimes losing characters
when refreshing the screen in a full screen application. I talked with the
people at Datastorm and they were unaware of a problem (even with
all the initial noise on readnews). Recently the noise died down... (I don't
know why). I followed it up. 

The problem is only apparent when using a standard speed PC with a Color
Graphics Adapter. So much time is wasted waiting for vertical retrace 
period to write to screen with out snow on the CGA that there is too much
to do in the remaining time. An AT or a turbo PC can catch up but a regular
PC is too slow. 

Datastorm has a fix for the problem so there should be a solution available
soon I hope.

Procomm IS a good program but I had serious reservations about it when
I saw how poor 2.4.x performed, I hope 2.4.3 (Is this next?) will again
restore my confidence!
tj
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Subject: PROCOMM Problems... relief is near...
Message-ID: <1986Nov11.232440.19964@utcs.uucp>
Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 23:24:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 11 23:24:40 1986
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