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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)
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <53jt8g$429@flash.noc.best.net>
References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net> <53jgb8$rk8@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <53ji49$dd9@usenet.bridge.com>
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:In article <53ji49$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>
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