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. >-- >Monterey Software Group Inc. Email: [log in to unmask] >Suite 300 Voice: 408-735-0437 >520 Lawrence Expressway Fax: 408-735-8346 >Sunnyvale, California 94086-4025 Pager: 408-237-1705 > >www.editcorp.com/Businesses/MontereySoftware > >