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I have enjoyed using Textpad and was recently updated by our IS department to a new computer and Windows 2000 from 98. I use the tools to call a bat file that runs my compiler and to send the hex file to my target machine. My compiler generates a rotating / to show progress and in Win2000 with capture and DOS Command turned on my compile time has slowed down to an unusable time. It is fast if I turn off the capture, but then I can't jump to errors. My new computer is a 1.6Ghz and 4 times faster than the previous one. Is there something in my setup that causes this? I'm may have to find another editor if I can't make this one work.

Not come across this before, but rotating \ is normally achieved by printing combinations of the characters \-/|, with backspace between each. I guess the backspace is causing the inter-process pipe to block, so try checking "Suppress output until completed", for that tool. That way, the output is written to a temporary file, which TextPad loads as soon as the tool completes.