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Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project



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.

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Richard Braakman
Will write free software for money.
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