- programmer wishes to output several windows at once, a
- series of calls to <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> results in alternating calls
- to <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> and <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG>, causing several bursts of
- output to the screen. By first calling <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> for
- each window, it is then possible to call <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG> once,
- resulting in only one burst of output, with fewer total
- characters transmitted and less CPU time used. If the <EM>win</EM>
- argument to <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> is the global variable <STRONG>curscr</STRONG>, the
- screen is immediately cleared and repainted from scratch.
+ programmer wishes to output several windows at once, a se-
+ ries of calls to <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> results in alternating calls to
+ <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> and <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG>, causing several bursts of out-
+ put to the screen. By first calling <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> for each
+ window, it is then possible to call <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG> once, result-
+ ing in only one burst of output, with fewer total charac-
+ ters transmitted and less CPU time used. If the <EM>win</EM> argu-
+ ment to <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> is the global variable <STRONG>curscr</STRONG>, the screen
+ is immediately cleared and repainted from scratch.