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Re: [ECS] ECST v4? Mark Gilmore Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:08:41 -0800

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Pressing F1...F4 has no effect on any cfg file.

David Mccoll wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> I think these problems may be related. On some systems as the HD is accessed
> the screen writes will hesitate. Wayne described the same symptoms I
> experience with ECS writing back to C: from the currently logged drive D:.
> Every time you press jump between editors F1, F2, F3 etc the w0.cfg on  C:
> reflects changes even though you are on  D:.  If his configuration is very
> large, would it not take a substantial amount of time to re-write the state
> or config changes to the w0.cfg file ?
> 
> DAvid M
> 
> >No, Wayne is reporting a screen update problem, NOT a save problem
> >
> >David Mccoll wrote:
> >>
> >> 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?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >--
> >Mark Gilmore
> >Omnipotence (Home Automation Software)
> >omnip@usit.net
> >http://www.usit.com/omnip
> >

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

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