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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!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: VI slow start-up Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 15:37:40 -0800 Organization: AT&T Lines: 14 Message-ID: <328272C4.4758@indy.celebration.net> References: <55nlkf$ecr@news.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: dyson@indy.celebration.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Neil Long wrote: > > Just curious (again). Is there any reason why vi should start-up so > slowly when run on the PC console compared to a remote login? > > I find it takes 10-12 seconds on the PC consoles and only a couple of secs > if I rlogin from elsewhere. (no filename and irritatingly reproducible) > > I am running 2.2-961014-SNAP on a 486/33 with 20M, plenty of swap unused. > Just a guess -- move your console's termcap entry to near the beginning of the file? John