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From: Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: VI slow start-up
Date: 8 Nov 1996 10:56:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Materials, University of Oxford
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"John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net> writes:

>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

Yes moving cons25 to the top improves it a lot but it still takes 4 secs-ish
compared with 2-ish via an xterm/vt100 network connection.

The developers must never use the consoles I guess!

Thanks
Neil
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