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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:42:12 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SLOOOOOW rlogin
Message-ID:  <9602261642.AA21610@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960226105804.11113F-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net>
References:  <199602261340.NAA00921@CoDe.CoDe.hu> <Pine.SCO.3.91.960226105804.11113F-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net>

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<<On Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:01:06 -0500 (EST), steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> said:

> The work around I have in place is a call to stty when the user logs in - 
> if you can get away with stty 0 do it - I had to do stty 9600 to get 
> decent speed and not mess up pine and elm etc.

It this is your work-around, then your problem has nothing to do with
flow-control.  Simply put, many full-screen terminal-oriented programs
like pine, elm, emacs, etc., insert padding in their output to keep
your fifteen-year-old VT100 from dropping half your screen updates.
Naturally, this padding depends on what the program thinks is the
`speed' of your `serial line'.  If the `speed' is very high, then it
will send huge amounts of padding, which you will observe as pauses.

-GAWollman

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