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MyCLI vers. 1.1

#: 14104 S2/Utilities/Other ApsForum unknown
    07-Apr-86 12:10:55
Sb: #14038-MyCLI vers. 1.1
Fm: John Foust 72237,135
To: HR Laser 72257,3446

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Harv: I re-read the section of the manual that deals with this, when I first had trouble. The trouble is, I think in terms of buffers that ALWAYS spool to disk. That's why it's a _BUFFER_, right? The documentation doesn't say that a 64 K buffer won't spool to disk, so I assumed that it would. I still think it's a bug. I'd rather have a buffer that size, so it flushed only once in a while, especially since Online! seems to have severe always-behind-updating-the-screen problems. This is evident in the long time it takes CTRL/S to "stop" the flow of characters…