From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 22 18:06:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA23689 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 18:06:29 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA23683 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 18:06:28 -0800 Received: from latte.eng.umd.edu (latte.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.15]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id VAA21320; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 21:06:08 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by latte.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id VAA28728; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 21:06:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 21:06:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Dan Yergeau cc: Amancio Hasty , hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: X11 protocol compressor. In-Reply-To: <199503230035.QAA05948@gloworm.Stanford.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Dan Yergeau wrote: > 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. Dan, it matters how you set term up. I run Mosaic at home, on my X server. The mosaic binary knows about term directly (I invoke it with the -term option) so the X stuff is local, only the network stuff goes out over the async line. I get very spiffy performance out of this, often better than the on-campus folks (they have to share the X resources with other users, I don't). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------