Sat 2002-11-09 23:59, Tobias Ernst (2:2476/418.15) wrote to andrew clarke:

 > There are some russian and ukrainian guys working on the Win32 port of 
 > hpt, smapi and fidoconfig, but as to my knowledge, no one is woring on 
 > the Win32 port of Msged. I myself only spent minimal efforts on that 
 > one, because even when I had access to a Windows system, I did not like 
 > that work. I had some big problems especially with the console part, 
 > and was glad when this was half working.

I felt that way too when I wrote winntscr.c originally, but a lot of it was
just guesswork as I was not really at all familiar with the Win32 API at
the time.  I stole a few ideas from the source code of the Win32 port of
BinkleyTerm...  :-)

 > If you want to improve the situation (there is also a big mystery as to 
 > why the console code is THAT slow on Win95, while it is OK on NT, and I 
 > have no idea as to how it behaves on 2000 or XP), go ahead. :-)

It's a "fault" of Win9x/ME's console subsystem, although the code
could probably be optimised more so it's not as noticable, but I don't know
whether it's worth the trouble (is there anyone running the NT version
under Win9x?).  It's fine in Windows NT 4/2000 on my AMD K6-2 350 machine. 
I assume it's OK under XP too.

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