Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: PIPEing from ser: Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 90 21:23:37 GMT References: <6997@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Nov7.235254.13959@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <7025@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Nov12.101531.19828@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov16.104712.20944@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> <7070@sugar.hackercorp.com> Lines: 19 >In article <7070@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: >> I'd just try increasing the internal buffer size. The pipe device can't >> very well tell your terminal program to stop transferring the file while >> it catches up! > >Um, why not? A floppy device can. Really? Try downloading a file into a directory on a fragmented Amiga floppy with a few hundred small files in it. Watch the terminal program lose characters. Watch jrcomm die. The terminal program can only hold to a certain point, then buffers start to overrun. >Peter da Silva. `-_-' -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |