From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 22 16:35:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA19880 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:35:31 -0800 Received: from gloworm.Stanford.EDU (gloworm.Stanford.EDU [36.2.0.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA19874 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:35:30 -0800 Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by gloworm.Stanford.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA05948; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:35:17 -0800 Message-Id: <199503230035.QAA05948@gloworm.Stanford.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: gloworm.Stanford.EDU: Host localhost.Stanford.EDU didn't use HELO protocol To: Amancio Hasty cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: X11 protocol compressor. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 1995 14:38:16 GMT." <199503221438.OAA01096@star-gate.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:35:15 -0800 From: Dan Yergeau Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty writes: > >The program that you are thinking of is "term". Hunt around any linux >archive. I think that term only has generic compression. This is probably not optimal for X packets where a lot of the overhead is in the relatively big (nearly) duplicated headers. I tried term for running X applications over a V.32 modem link. The performance of an NCD X-terminal (with XRemote, which is approx equiv to LBX) was significantly better over the same link. If I could figure out how to "use" LBX, I'd give it a try. BTW, the fastest channel multiplexer I've found is layers (a unix client for MacLayers). It provides very low overhead multiple terminal sessions over a single link and file transfer (via zmodem), but no additional features like IP redirection or remote X connections. Editing over a 9600 bps link feels like a straight 9600 bps link, unlike term, which feels as bad as SLIP. File transfer nearly maxes out the available bandwidth. Of course, response does slow down a bit during file transfers. Dan