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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Slow backspaces on Sys V
Message-ID: <1156@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 03:02:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: mhres.1156
Posted: Tue Jul 28 03:02:46 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 04:27:36 EDT
References: <414@brazil.UUCP>
Organization: Multihouse NV, the Netherlands
Lines: 18
Summary: use fill

In article <414@brazil.UUCP>, ghost@brazil.UUCP (Dana Jacobsen) writes:
> 
>   We're have some AT&T 3b2/300's running SysV.2 and one of them is having
> problems backspacing at a reasonable speed.  It backspaces at approximately
> 300 baud no matter what the connection speed is. This is most noticible in
> less (at the end of every page) and ksh (when moving up to previous commands).

I have had the same problem (a long time ago, but apparently it still
exists). From the caves of my memory, I remember that I used stty to tell
the terminal driver not to use bs delay, but to send null fill characters
(stty ofill) instead. This speeded up the tty output.

Hope it helps.

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Johan Vromans                           | jv@mh.nl via mcvax and seismo
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