OpenEuphoria

Re: Date and time program

• Posted by Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET> Sep 25, 1998
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Matt Z Nunyabidness wrote:
> I think Euphoria programs run horribly slow in a DOS box.
ummmm.... i think you need to adjust your pif settings...
badly...
if i write a program, benchmark it in pure dos, and in a
dos box (with the pif as i have it), i *might* get a
5% difference in speed... tops.

>Have you ever noticed, that in a DOS box the cursor's
>color is the opposite of the background, but in full
>screen/pure dos mode, the cursor's color is the
>same color as the foreground?
here i think you're confusing pure dos, full screen and
dos box.  pure dos is when you reboot, (and if you don't
already have it showing automatically) you hit f8
to get the bootmenu, choose 5 to step thru each line
of your config/autoexec (always do that cuz if you don't
you will have ifshelp and setver loaded and they are
basically worthless tsr's to have loaded while in
*pure* dos) and answer y/n to all the questions and when
you are done, you are in *pure* dos mode, no windoze
around anywhere at all.
fullscreen and dos box are the same.  you are entering
dos thru a pif while running windows.  the only
difference is whether the activites that take place
are to be shown in a windows or full screen.

now that we are cooking with similar terminology,
if you are having trouble while running under a
dos box, be it windowed or fullscreen, once again,
you have setting problems somewhere.
if you load ansi.sys, try seeing what your prompt
string is, that may be causing a few potential
glitches when switching from windowed to full
screen under a dosbox.

--Hawke'