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From: appelbau@topaz.rutgers.edu (Marc L. Appelbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Help!
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Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 09:57:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 09:57:05 1987
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Most terminal programs buffer the incomming data into the available
RAM, and write it to disk when the buffer is full.  If the program
wrote directly to disk your file transfer would take 3-5 times longer.
-- 
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