Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!mhres!jv 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. -- Johan Vromans | jv@mh.nl via mcvax and seismo Multihouse N.V., Gouda, the Netherlands | uucp: ..{seismo!}mcvax!mh.nl!jv "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness"