*BSD News Article 80446


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!nvp
From: nvp@cs.buffalo.edu (Nathan V Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q)
Date: 10 Oct 1996 18:47:04 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <53jgb8$rk8@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>
References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: armstrong.cs.buffalo.edu
NNTP-Posting-User: nvp
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Tom Misiak (misiak@foto.infi.net) wrote:

: I then attempted to start a simple xapp to see what 
: happens.  I executed xcalc& in the telnet term.  After
: about 45 secs I got the outline of xcalc but the app
: never became usable (had the frame but nothing in it...)

Woah boy...

: Any ideas what could be causing this problem?  

Yes, better keep an extinguisher by yer desk ... you're setting the phone
lines on fire.  :)  Seriously, don't forget that you are using a modem, and
are transmitting an image/bitmap over the net.

Personally, I'd try a better option like an ISDN or something _much_ faster
--- probably _at least_ 57,600.

To prove my point, try xbiff.  Send yourself mail.  xbiff updates quickly.
xbiff is small.  xbiff is friend of phone line.

HTH

Nate
nvp@nfic.com