Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:36:58 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SLOOOOOW rlogin Message-ID: <199602270736.XAA07739@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:42:12 EST." <9602261642.AA21610@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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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. Someone reported 6 months or so ago that speeds of > 9600 baud made rlogin really slow, while speeds of 4800/9600 were "fast". I've not validated this claim, but someone might want to look into it. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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