PS>> Yes, byt those are slow, and if ANSI-sequenses are to be written, it
 PS>> gets REALLY slow!

 DL> Use the VioWrtTTY() function then.  It automatically decodes the ANSI
 DL> escape sequences for you.

 PS> I tryed that, but it isn't faster than cout!!! The programs
 PS> I see are fast, like Direct Screen Writes, ITY HAS TO BE
 PS> POSSIBLE!!!! =) But how... 

   Writing one byte at a time is a real performance killer under OS/2 (and
presumably other protected operating systems) due to cpu context switches. 
You want to write as many characters at a time as possible to avoid this
overhead.  cout provides buffering to accomplish this, and you have seen
how much difference this can make.
   The same is true of writing/reading COM ports...

Jeff

--- timEd/2 1.01