From: *jeffdb AT netzone DOT nospam DOT com ("Mikey") Subject: Re: Bash is very slow to respond to keyboard input 22 May 1997 20:05:17 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199705212347.QAA17847.cygnus.gnu-win32@nz1.netzone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 Original-To: "Steve Kachman" Original-Cc: "cygnus gnu-win32 mailing list" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hey give the poor thing a break, DOS, (whoops I mean win95) has been around since 197*, don't you think it's a lot to ask to be able to accept keyboard input, and do disk io at the same time? ;^) But seriously I have had the same problem since B14, I just figured it was 95's well known bad console handling If you didn't have the problem under b17.1, then you were very lucky, or you were on a very fast machine, I'm on a P100, and it's stuttering even as I type. (*jeffdb AT netzone DOT com) the return address for this message is anti spammed remove * from the above address to reply. Mikey>After switching to B18, bash frequently ignores keyboard input when I am >using the cursor keys to edit a command line. I will be using the cursor >keys to backup quickly and the cursor will pause for awhile and then after >a few seconds it will spit out some ANSI escape codes where my cursor was. > >Possibly related to this is when man fires up less. Less will also tend to >get confused. It will ignore some of the keystrokes. After a bit of >struggle it will appear to disappear only to have the less prompt appear a >bit later. > >This is all happening on a WIN95 machine. I haven't seen these problem on >the NT machine. > >Any suggestions, pointers, or fixes will be greatly appreciated. > > >Steve Kachman >skachman AT unl DOT edu - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".