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Subject: Re: making nmdm(4) emulate actual speed.
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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 ?
>  
>

maybe as an option...

I want faster tansfer speed when I use it.. but emulated speed could be 
fun..
and even useful as a way of pacing data in some cases..