Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 06:57:16 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making nmdm(4) emulate actual speed. Message-ID: <20050103065715.A67451@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <18962.1104749259@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@phk.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:47:39AM %2B0100 References: <18962.1104749259@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:47:39AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I participated in an "Editor Celebrity Death Match" recently and > being the senior combatant my weapon of choice was ed(1). To > properly show off ed(1)'s main weakness I wanted to run my slides > in ed(1) on a 300 bps line. > > Rather than use two USB-serial dongles and a usb-hub, I hacked nmdm(4) > up to actually respect the baud-rate set with stty. > > Would this be considered generally useful ? being nmdm(4) an emulation tool, i'd say definitely yes, probably even more useful if you provide a knob to enable/disable the speed emulation -- i see a point in actually emulating the wire speed, but also one in not doing so when the application is not speed-sensitive and you just want it to run quickly. cheers luigi > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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