Lee,

I had a similar problem and it was due to the command shell in-line editing
extension.

Commenting out the following line in /etc/profile:

export EDITOR=vi


Got round the problem but it now means that I have to retype quite a lot ;)


Regards,

Jamie Dickson


Lee Courtney wrote in message <[log in to unmask]>...
>Hi folks,
>
>I posted an item recently asking if any other newsgroup readers had
>experienced sluggish performance when using Reflection to access the
>POSIX shell under MPE iX. I haven't seen or received any replies, but
>wanted to post a couple of more data points. We boosted memory in the
>machine (917LX running 5.5) from 64M to 192M with no change in
>performance (at least in regards to this problem). Despite memory
>utilization running at 90%+ we didn't think more memory would make a
>difference, and this was confirmed in practice. Since then I have done
>some tests and notice that direct connections (serial) don't seem to
>have the same problem dropping characters as network (both NS-VT and
>Telnet) connections.
>
>Has anyone else seen the shell dropping characters, type-ahead not
>working, and/or sluggish performance using the POSIX shell thru
>Reflection network connections? If so what was the solution? BTW, I have
>talked to WRQ about this but they were not able to shed much light on
>the problem.
>
>Thanks for any and all feedback!
>
>Lee C.
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