On Oct 27, 2021, at 7:16, James B. Byrne wrote:
> Does anyone know what I would need to change in freevt3k to have a larger copy
> and paste (clipboard) buffer when using freevt3k?
> 
> I have checked using both PuTTY and Gnome Terminal as the underlying Unix
> session.   HP sessions in freevt3k from both truncate clipboard pastes after
> exactly 254 characters (hmmm).  Copy seems unaffected.  I can copy from a
> Freevt3k screen and paste the entire contents into a text editor running on
> FreeBSD.  But I cannot do the same on a text editor running on the HP3000
> inside Freevt3k.
> 
> The only things that I can see in the code that might be applicable are:

(snip)

> But these have a much larger buffer than what I am experiencing.  Where else
> might this be set?

The pending read request length on the HP3000.  

You might try freevt3k’s -t flag to enable type-ahead; that may induce it to not discard the later pasted “keyboard input” that gets processed after the completion of the pending read request.

-Frank McConnell 

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