Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14762; Sat, 2 Dec 95 06:46:17 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12940; Sat, 2 Dec 95 06:45:14 EST Received: from jhome.DIALix.COM (root@jhome.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA06372 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 03:38:44 -0800 Received: (from peter@localhost) by jhome.DIALix.COM (8.7.2/8.7.2) id TAA03325; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:38:29 +0800 (WST) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:38:29 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm To: committers@freebsd.org Subject: Peter's handy hints, part 1.. :-) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Here's a quick hint for people logging into freefall over lousy international links.... 1: use telnet, not rlogin. 2: turn off any line editing, eg: for tcsh, type "unset edit" or run /bin/sh or /bin/csh instead. What this gets you, is telnet going into line mode. You get to edit your command lines with local echo, and the text is sent up to freefall only when you press return. It doesn't help for vi, etc, but I find it takes longer to edit a botched command line than it takes to type it from scratch, especially when it takes 20 seconds to get character echo, versus instant local echo. Sadly, ssh and rlogin don't have line mode... I realise that a good number of people will be aware of this, but in case you didn't.... try it out.. You may be suprised! -Peter