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From: pnelson@hobbes.uucp (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can we salvage the clipboard?
Summary: still 256 chars max into A-Talk3
Message-ID: <3694@tymix.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 90 08:01:40 GMT
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In article <25530@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <3675@tymix.UUCP> pnelson@hobbes.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:
>|I had this problem cutting from and pasting to A-Talk III Release 1.0e,
>|it will paste back 256 char max.
>
>I just received the latest snap from Mikael, and checked with A-Talk III
>1.3a (the current version).  It works like a champ.  I "snapped" an entire 
>page from a file I was "more"-ing on the Amiga, and sent it to
>my host connected with A-Talk III and running Gnu-Emacs.  It snapped all
>600+ characters with no problem. I tried with AT-/// Release 1.0e, with same
>results. Maybe you don't know how to use it :-)

Maybe. Then again, maybe your program does not like having chars rammed
down it's input buffer :-)

I was able to snap text larger than 256 chars by using the "snap -c20"
suggested elsewhere (thanks, whoever made the suggestion). I have since
upgraded to A-Talk3 version 1.3a, just now I went back to "snap" without
any args, and the same problem of not being able to paste back more than
256 characters has recurred, every time I try it. I can paste back the
same snap into CED, slow, but it works.

Some things that may be somewhat unusual with my setup: I use morerows (but
the separate screen setting of A-Talk) and XOn-XOff.

I did some experimenting to prove that the problem is not with any single
network host (I tried a Sun server and a PDP-10). It is barely possible that
the problem is in the Tymnet Dialup that I am connected to, but I doubt it
very much, I have in the past uploaded megabytes of ASCII data via Tymnet
Consats using X-On X-Off flow control, without losing even a single char.

I am curious as to what your program does with keyboard input after it has
received an X-Off from the DCE - does it toss the input? don't panic - it's
just curiosity, I don't think the Consat is sending an X-Off at 256 chars
(I'm not sure, since it is a little difficult to know the configuration
of a Consat without special license, which I don't have in my present job)
but it might be. 

>-- Marco

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