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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!flash.noc.best.net!not-for-mail From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q) Date: 10 Oct 1996 15:27:28 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com) Lines: 47 Distribution: world Message-ID: <53jt8g$429@flash.noc.best.net> References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net> <53jgb8$rk8@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <53ji49$dd9@usenet.bridge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: flash.noc.best.net :In article <53ji49$dd9@usenet.bridge.com>, :Michael Hughes <mhughes@bridge.com> wrote: :>In article <53jgb8$rk8@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>, :> nvp@cs.buffalo.edu (Nathan V Patwardhan) writes: :>> 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 :>> :> :> I have done X over a 14.4 line, I think you are being to hard on it. :> :>-- :>Michael Hughes :>mhughes@bridge.com It *does* work... I often run X-apps over my 28.8 link, but only when I have to. It is definitely not something I would consider *fun*, though! -Matt -- Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc. <dillon@best.net> [always include a portion of the original email in any response!]