High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

[Ben Scott]

On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
> The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime.
> Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion.

  I suspect file name completion might be one of those "advanced
features" one has to give up when you go back to the bad-old-days of
high-latency links and local editing.

> Another issue is (or was) applications using curses ...

  The answer to that problem is "Don't do that anyway".  As Bill McG
said, they don't work well over truly high latency links, and I can
confirm.  Running even "vi" over such is painful.

  For editing files, I often resorted to SCP'ing to local, editing
locally, and then SCP'ing back.

-- Ben