Date   : Sun, 29 Jan 1984 10:10:00 CST (Sun)
From   : WANCHO@stl-host1
Subject: Making WordStar 3.3 come up faster

Steve,

Several years ago someone else also came up with the idea of changing
the delay bytes to zero, as well as a couple of other items.  He since
discovered that zero was NOT correct, although it appears to work.
The correct value for each of those delay bytes should be one.

About a year ago, I received verbal permission to publish his patch
file, stripped of identification, but I forgot to actually do so until
you brought the subject up.  I will upload the file to the SIMTEL20
tomorrow.  Look for PATCHWS.ASM in MICRO:<CPM.WSTAR>.  It applies to
WS 3.0, and may have to be slightly modified for 3.3.

The remainder of the patch concerns itself with intercepting the
console status calls, and making the actual calls every 16th.  This
significantly improves the screen updates!

--Frank