ZTerm Speed Patch

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1993 15:30:43 -0400 (EDT)

This ResEdit color palette may speed up ZTerm's performance
at high speeds (>=9600 bps.) If you don't need color, simply
set your monitor to black and white. The following is from the
ReadMe file:

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How it works:
Changing the code resource makes ZTerm call _GetNewCWindow, instead of
_GetNewWindow. When a program calls _GetNewCWindow, GetNewCWindow looks for a
resource of type pltt with the same id as the window. It finds the palette
copied into ZTerm, and loads it. When ZTerm tries to change the colors, the
palette manager uses the closest available colors, which should be the ones in
its palette (since there are only 16 colors). When ZTerm is normally used in
16 color mode, the colors are very hard to read, because it has to use the
available colors. It takes half as long to draw a character on the screen in
4-bit mode (16 colors) then it does to draw one in 8-bit (256 colors) mode.
Running in 16 colors should make ZTerm display the screen twice as fast (if
your modem is fast enough).

Send any comments to me at one of the following e-mail addresses:
America Online: JonSnell
Internet: JonSnell@aol.com
Prodigy: FTCB36D

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This version replaces my previous upload, which contained the
instructions, but not the color palette. A Stuffed, BinHexed
file. Please place in the comm directory with ZTerm.

Leslie Jones
ljones@utkvx.utk.edu

Path: /www/exparrot/files.tidbits.com/info-mac/comm/term/zterm-speed-patch.hqx