Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 19:51:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: ache@freefall.cdrom.com (Andrew A. Chernov) Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-lib@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libtermcap tputs.c Message-ID: <199410080251.TAA05895@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199410062032.NAA05184@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Andrew A. Chernov" at Oct 6, 94 01:32:10 pm
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> > ache 94/10/06 13:32:09 > > Modified: lib/libtermcap tputs.c > Log: > Change padding mechanism to use usleep, old variant not works > on terminals with no pad char (cons25) and quote from tputs.c says so too: > ! * Too bad there are no user program accessible programmed delays. > ! * Transmitting pad characters slows many > ! * terminals down and also loads the system. You can not use a time function to do terminal timing, there can easily be fifo's and other buffers in the path that will infact cram the characters back up against each other and break any CPU delays you did :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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