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From: ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org (Ralf Wenk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: What's wrong with kermit? (ST minix 1.5)
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.184327.01729@ptavv.ka.sub.org>
Date: 4 Apr 91 18:43:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.203102.24856@doe.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991Apr3.203102.24856@doe.utoronto.ca>
david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
> I have just purchased ST Minix 1.5, and I find both stterm and kermit
> slooow. There seems to be some kind of serious buffering going on
> for the RS232 port, so characters do not appear immediately when I have
> typed them, even though listings, etc. from the host seem to scroll by
> fast enough.
 
With MINIX ST 1.5 you got the MINIX PC 1.3 tty driver. Try to get
the patches for MINIX ST 1.5.10.[1-3] from an archive. With 1.5.10.2
you will get the faster MINIX PC 1.5 tty driver and a faster stwini.c too.

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Ralf Wenk -- ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org