Re: High latency shell environment

From: Kevin Collins (spamtotrash_at_toomuchfiction.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote in message news:<f984b3a05c7e43268e613fe8671aa070@news.teranews.com>...
    > >>>>> "Funky" == Funky Trilobyte <funky_trilobyte@hotmail.com> writes:
    >
    > Funky> The folks in alt.satellite.starband are so far saying that interactive
    > Funky> shells will be unbearable due to near-1000ms latencies.
    >
    > I've been doing just fine using ssh over 1000ms latency connections
    > from cruise ships (www.geekcruises.com). However, I started in the
    > early days of the net where slow modems were the norm, and my brain
    > just has flashbacks to those days. :)
    >
    > Perhaps I tolerate it because I know it'll only be for a dozen hours
    > during the week I'm aboard ship, however.
    >
    > I'd suggest looking into "remoting" as many things as you can. Learn
    > to use a local mail client with IMAP, and edit local files, keeping
    > them sync'ed up with rsync and CVS, and so on.
    >
    > Just another Unix hacker,

    I haven't used it before, but vIM (www.vim.org) supports a
    client/server method that allows you to edit remote files locally, so
    that would be pretty useful for editing over this type of link.

    The real issue with telnet, ftp, etc is going to be the
    character-by-character echo over a very roundabout transmission.
    Perhaps you can find (or hack) an sshd / ssh that uses local echo
    instead? I don't know how invlolved that would be, but I don't suspect
    it would be a huge deal...

    Good luck and post back if you find a solution - I looked into
    Starband for my vaction property and gave up based on what I read on
    alt.satellite.starband :)

    Kevin

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