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to: Frank Malcolm
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1996-05-06 10:12:40
subject: A short delay

-=> Quoting Frank Malcolm to Paul Edwards on 05-04-96 14:07 <=-

 FM> As you may recall the TinyPoint Telix script puts diamonds on
 FM> the screen while waiting for the Enq. In the past it showed 1
 FM> or maybe 2, but recently (this week?) it's been a line and a
 FM> half. It's not a significant delay (really just flashes up),
 FM> but I thought you might be interested.

  Brenton has written a complicated loop in Tinypoint, and my guess is
that Paul now sends stuff immediately, rather than making us wait, so
Brenton's loop just runs to the maximum count and stops. It really
needs to be rewritten, but it seems to work anyway. 

Regards,
Bob
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