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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!bhamcs!news.ox.ac.uk!news From: Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: VI slow start-up Date: 11 Nov 1996 09:42:32 GMT Organization: Department of Materials, University of Oxford Lines: 53 Message-ID: <566se8$5pq@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <55nlkf$ecr@news.ox.ac.uk> <328272C4.4758@indy.celebration.net> <55v3l2$phq@news.ox.ac.uk> <563l7v$14a@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: njl2.materials.ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes: >In article <55v3l2$phq@news.ox.ac.uk>, > Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk> writes: >: "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! >Have you got a good /usr/share/misc/termcap.db (man cap_mkdb) ? >I had such problems with 960323-SNAP - and found it mildly irritating. I >recently upgraded to 961014 and also put it on our development machine at >work, and the problem went away.... I didn't know about termcap.db then. >Bear in mind, you can also set your TERMCAP variable to the termcap entry >itself. If all else fails, this will make things *very* quick. >-- >Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> > <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... >. Brilliant suggestion - works like a charm. Definitely one for the FAQ. Yes, the man page does mention it - right at the bottom. Thanks Neil -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Neil J Long, Department of Materials, University of Oxford * Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK * EMail: Neil.Long@materials.oxford.ac.uk * Tel: +44 (0)1865-273678 Fax: +44 (0)1865-273789