> No bugs noted -- but one oddity. I started out running TR under DOS,
> because I was worried about possible higher memory usage in a Win 98
> window, and noticed that it seemed slow. There were noticeable pauses
> between keyboard keystrokes and the beginning of CW, and I could see the
> updating process take place in the upper right window -- entries would
> flash and flash again before settling. This on a 200MHz Pentium with 128MB
> of RAM.
Did you have a disk cache running?
> Then, on Saturday, I needed the SBDVP, so I restarted in a full-screen DOS
> window under Win98, stopped all background tasks except Systray and
> Explorer, and went the rest of the way in that configuration. The screen
> seemed to respond much more crisply. Odd that it isn't the other way around.
Win98 gives you a disk cache.
> Finally, a curiosity question. I've been a TR user since 1994, but have
> never understood what the Repeat S&P Exchange is for. I program it
> dutifully every contest, but as far as I know I've never used it on either
> CW or phone. How is it invoked in the current form of the program? Or is
> it?
If you press F2 to repeat the exchange, it will send the REPEAT S&P EXCHANGE
instead of S&P EXCHANGE. If you leave it blank, it will just send S&P EXCHANGE.
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