dbarnes@garth.UUCP (Dave Barnes) (01/09/90)
I have a PC at work, and I now use SmarTerm as a terminal emulator
to access our UNIX system. Since I use Procomm at home, I thought
I'd try it here.
Both are set to 9600 baud and VT100 emulation, but SmarTerm seems
so much faster than Procomm when files are displayed on the screen.
For example, when I read the news with SmarTerm, "zip" and the file
is displayed. With Procomm, it is noticeably slower, like maybe
two thirds the speed.
I also tried Telix, since I've heard good things about it, but it
was about the speed of Procomm.
Is there some setting I need to adjust to make Procomm faster?
Is it just due to inherent differences between software packages?
Thanks for the advice.
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----------------------------------------------------------fogelman@hpavla.HP.COM (Kimber Fogelman) (01/13/90)
Your problem with PROCOMM may be occurring as a result of transmit pacing. Transmit pacing is a feature of PROCOMM which slows down output from your terminal to make it easier for the remote machine not to miss anything. The way it works is that each character is transmitted at the set baud rate (i.e. 9600 baud) and then followed by a delay before the next character is sent. On my installed version of PROCOMM, the transmit pacing is set to 25 ms. This may be the default setting, I don't recall changing it. At any rate, 9600 baud is capable transmitting about a character each millisecond, so a 25 millisecond delay between characters is significant. Your other communications software may be using a lower transmit pacing value or none at all. To change this value in PROCOMM, select the General Setup group from the setup screen. Transmit pacing is the last parameter. You may want to look at your other software first and see if it has a transmit pacing parameter. K. Fogelman These comments represent my own views and not necessarily those of my employer.