Sluggish Repeat Cursor Keys

["EBERLE, JIM" JEBERLE@xxxxxxxx]

Awhile back I asked the List for help in resolving a problem with sluggish
repeat cursor keys in Xy 4.018 DOS operating under Windows 2000. Others on
the List responded that they were having the same problem -- the cursor
would pause, then lumber across the line, and then overshoot the target. I
don't think the problem is machine specific. I am using a Compaq Pentium 4 2
GHz computer, and others reported the same problem with other machines.

One List member suggested using the Tame program, and another, as I recall,
polled the List to determine who might be interested in engaging the
services of David Thomas of Tame to solve the problem. I didn't hear back,
so I contacted David directly. David suggested that I try using the arrow
cursor keys on the numeric keyboard. I discovered to my surprise that the
Number Lock toggle key did not give me use of the arrow keys. Even using the
function call CN didn't work. It turned off the number lock initial N on the
screen but the arrow keys still came up as numbers on the screen.

But what did happen instead by invoking the Number Lock toggle or the
function CN is that the cursor sped up using the regular arrow keys. Since
it didn't always work, more experimentation followed. David gave me
instructions for changing some of the settings in Tame, but they made no
difference. What really works most of the time is to push the Number Lock
toggle one or more times. And, if the cursor doesn't speed up, then I use
the function calls CN and SN and then back to CN, and then pushing the
toggle key again. You may have to do this every time you fire up your
computer and XyWrite; I leave my computer on and XyWrite loaded all week at
work.

My thanks to David for pointing me in the direction of the Numeric keypad.
And my apologies for suggesting that Tame is not needed to resolve the
problem.

Jim Eberle