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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:   PIPEing from ser:
Message-ID: <7092@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 13:25:55 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> <ben.3472@epmooch.UUCP> <7070@sugar.hackercorp.com> <ben.3504
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In article <ben.3504@epmooch.UUCP> ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes:
> 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.

That's why there are such things as "handshaking" and "download protocols".
There are lots of ways to tell the system at the other end "hey! I'm out
of breath here. Give me a break!".
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.