Re: PIPEing from ser:

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From: Rev. Ben A. Mesander
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 1990 21:23

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>In article <7070@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <ben.3472@epmooch.UUCP> ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes:
>> I'd just try increasing the internal buffer size. The pipe device can't
>> very well tell your terminal program to stop transferring the file while
>> it catches up! 
>
>Um, why not? A floppy device can.

Really? Try downloading a file into a directory on a fragmented Amiga 
floppy with a few hundred small files in it. Watch the terminal program
lose characters. Watch jrcomm die. The terminal program can only hold to
a certain point, then buffers start to overrun.

>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'

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From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander)
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Subject: Re:   PIPEing from ser:
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Date: 18 Nov 90 21:23:37 GMT
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