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Re: [ECS] ECST v4? Mark Gilmore Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:17:04 -0800

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No, Wayne is reporting a screen update problem, NOT a save problem

David Mccoll wrote:
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> Wayne,
> That is the system writing the W0.cfg file to the C:. I have to get dumps of
> this off to Mark so that he can correct it. I found the same thing and when
> run off of a Ram drive it writes back to C:.
> 
> David M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Wittenberg <waynew@magicnet.net>
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 2:23 PM
> Subject: [ECS] ECST v4?
> 
> >  Is anybody else using ECST v4?  Since I have upgraded a few days ago, I
> >noticed that switching between the F1,F2 & F3 screens has gotten MUCH
> >slower.  I am running on a 486/100 and the screen used to switch almost
> >instantly.  Now I get a 'please wait...' message and have to watch the
> >screen draw, almost line by line.  Mark hasn't noticed a problem, but his
> >slowest PC is 128 Mhz.
> >  I just rebooted to see if I could speed things up and a LOT of items had
> >their values changed.  Including all my colors (which are not in ANY
> events)
> >and sunrise/set time, etc.  One item that I don't use or touch came up
> >invalid.  No idea what happened, it was just a simple, controlled reboot!
> >  I have also noticed that my benchmark items dropped from 10.7
> >passes/second to 8.4 passes/second when I switched from v3.4 to v4.  Has
> >anybody else observed v4 being slower?
> >
> >
> >

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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (Home Automation Software)
omnip@usit.net
http://www.usit.com/omnip

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