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From: ofer@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Ofer Licht)
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Subject: HitchHiker1.1 (was Re: Kermit for NeXT)
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Date: 23 Feb 90 20:32:38 GMT
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In article <118400008@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Now, my plug for the day, I have made HitchHiker1.1, which makes serial port
>easy enough for even a beginner to use.  If you don't like something in 
>HitchHiker, you can purchase the source code and modify it yourself.
>
>Michael Rutman
>jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Whenever I run HitchHiker, the machine slows to a crawl as soon as I
try to open a port.  If I type into the string gadget which specifies
an external terminal, it takes several minutes for the text to show up.
The load average rises by 4-5 units, but no extra processes are running.

Are there any happy HitchHiker users out there?

I can get c-kermit working in a regular terminal window just fine.
Is there something special I need to set up for HitchHiker to function
properly?  Or is this the thing I don't like which I can fix myself if
I shell out the non-trivial amount the author requests for source 8-)?

Ofer Licht
ofer@stat.berkeley.edu