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echo: os2prog
to: denis bider
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1996-06-11 22:37:00
subject: textmode output

db>
  > What is the quickest way to update the screen from an OS/2
  > text-mode application? Calling VioWrtCell..() functions is
  > terrifyingly slow.
db>

  Use VioWrtCellStr to write whole lines or whole screens at once, and do
  double-buffering.

  The physical buffer access routines are supposedly faster, but they will
  prevent a user from running your application in a window on the desktop.

  > JdeBP <
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