Re: Xy 3+ and Windoze

["James D. Besser" jbesser@xxxxxxxx]

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From: WooF 
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx 
Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Xy 3+ and Windoze


>On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, James D. Besser wrote:


>> Curiously, 4.017, which is obviously a much bigger program, works
>> faster and more smoothly in Win95. Especially noticable: jerky,
slow scrolling
>> in 3+, and awkward, jumpy pasting from the Windoze clipboard.
>
>Are you running XyIII+ under Windows, or under Dos? I've never seen
>jerkiness with XyIII plus DOS 5 -- unless I'm dealing with a file
more
>than about 100,000 bytes long, in which case the program has to swap
>chunks of it in and out of some kind of memory. Hint: it helps to
make the
>place this is done a RAM rather than a hard drive.


Nope--both running under Win95, identically configured. When I was
running
DOS 6.2, Xy3+ was clearly faster than 4; under Windoze, 4 seems to
work
better, and I was just curious about why.

jb
> George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx
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