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FASTPLS
This patch is only for those with non glitching color video cards, such as
EGA, VGA, MCGA, and many CGA cards (besides IBM). It bypasses some extra
code code for writing to the screen on old cards. It could be made even faster
if procomm was changed to write whole strings at a time instead of single
characters but such as change is beyond the scope of outside patches (mainly
since procomm is written in Small model C code with Phoenix Plink for overlays
which makes the flow of code rather hard to follow).
Basicly each time procomm writes a character to the screen it goes through
a pile of assembly code that is, well to put it nicely, not very efficient.
Sooo..... with this patch you should see about a doubling of screen display,
maybe more, maybe less, it certainly seems snapier.
This is a patch for Procomm Plus Testdrive, this patch will only work if
your file has the same length, date, time as follows:
PCPLUSTD EXE 184352 2-09-88 4:52p
This patch also requires debug.com to run