characters are typed fast one after the other (<10 ms).
The visual effect under vi(1) was even more impressive. ;-)
This bug was actually introduced inadvertantly in 1995 in rev 1.4.
* deprecate register
* replace berkeley string funcs with ansi equivs
* use getopt rather than home grown cruft
* use foo(char *, ...) rather than foo(char *, long, long, long, [long, ...])