Subject: Re: system is very slow

From: [email-masked] (Alan Shutko)
Date: 21 May 1996 15:27:33 -0500

>>>>> "D" == DearOldDad  <[email-masked]> writes:

D> Get a faster modem ??? ... only a thought ... seriously for email
D> I'm not sure it makes a difference unless you can type faster than
D> 2400 bps.

That's not the problem.  The problem is that pine is very naive about
screen refreshes.  If you have a slow connection, it can take quite a
while to do simple things like paging the file.

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From: [email-masked] (DearOldDad)
Date: 18 May 1996 16:24:06 GMT

Paul Wagner ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have Pine 3.90 on my unix shell, but I find that it is very
: slow.  I have a 386 with a 2400 baud modem -- not sure if that
: matters much.
: Any ideas how I can speed this system up at all?

Get a faster modem ??? ... only a thought ... seriously for email I'm not
sure it makes a difference unless you can type faster than 2400 bps.  You
can buy a 14400 modem for +-50US$ or a 28800 for less that 100US$. 
Obviously modem speed makes a difference for newsreading or down/up/loads. 
I have a 286-16 with a 2400 modem running widows 3.0 , a 486-25 with a
14400 running windows 3.1, and a pentium-100 with a 28800 running
winblows95 and email works fine on all except that win95 can't pr(y)nt 
the email, but that's another story.  BYE