On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:11:58PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or rather not > using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess it does to improve > responsiveness). What you propose will break situations where you have to type > one non-interesting key to invoke an action, people wait for it to happen but > it won't be sent out because of your proposed terminal type. The only way you > could safely do this is if the server side would send cues whether or not to > do > character/word/line buffering.
This problem was solved for telnet, see RFC 1184. -- Richard Braakman Will write free software for money. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html