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Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?
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Bela Lubkin |
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Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"? |
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Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:31:13 -0700 |
Greg Barniskis wrote:
Greg>> I seem to recall listening in on a conversation several months ago
(maybe
Greg>> on a FreeBSD list, regarding an ftp client?) wherein a continuously
Greg>> updated display of total bytes transferred was causing a problem.
Greg>> The gist of the discussion was that the display system couldn't keep up
Greg>> with the screen updates -- the byte count was changing too fast. I think
Greg>> the problem was traced to a buffer (in curses?)... I'm pretty sure that
Greg>> the solution was to not to use total bytes transferred as the unit to
Greg>> display.
Thomas E. Dickey replied:
Tom> We (I & LP) already addressed this by keeping the rate of display down to
Tom> once per second (I didn't look closely at Bela's patch yet).
Well, I didn't touch that. If the update pacing was working right
before, it's still working now...
>Bela<
- Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?, Bela Lubkin, 1998/09/10
- Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?, Greg Barniskis, 1998/09/10
- Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?, dickey, 1998/09/10
- Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?,
Bela Lubkin <=
- Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?, dickey, 1998/09/10
- Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/09/10
- Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?, Leonid Pauzner, 1998/09/11