Subject: Re: can I slow PINE down?

From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 4 Apr 1996 17:38:28 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
	[email-masked] (David P. Fraleigh) writes:
>I recently bought a new (for me faster 14,400) modem...  It is a pleasure 
>to use.  Being able to access things more quickly is great.  However I am 
>having problems using PINE that I didn't have before...  It is just that 
>when I type I am getting occasional problems with untyped characters 
>showing up in the text...  and difficulty moving the cursor back and 
>forth in the text... etc. etc.  It is very frustrating...   I even pulled 
>this modem out (Zoltrix 14,4000 wanting to smash it with a hammer) and 
>switched back to my 2400 one... but I have grown used to the speed of the 
>faster one...  My question is the following...[ Are the problems that I 
>am having related  to the modems higher speed...  Are modems more 
>sensitive to line noise or glitches as they get faster (in the same way 
>that faster cars are harder to control)...  And if that is the case can I 
>somehow setup PINE to do its stuff at 2400 baud while allowing my other 
>internet viewing to proceed at a faster pace?...

You are seeing modem errors, not pine errors, I think.  It
may be on the telephone line, it may be on either your
modem or the server's modem.  What else do you do with the
login session?  Do you see random characters when you do
other things in the session?  I hate to say, but sometimes,
there are bad modems.

Jie
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