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From: nvp@cs.buffalo.edu (Nathan V Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q)
Date: 16 Oct 1996 19:47:53 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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Michael Hughes (mhughes@bridge.com) wrote:
:   I have done X over a 14.4 line, I think you are being to hard on it.

Really ... what?  I'd be interested in knowing what you ran.  I found that
programs that sent large bitmaps, like Frame or xv took _ages_ to load,
where smaller programs, like emacs (no colors), or xbiff (aformentioned)
were more reasonable.

Nate
nvp@nfic.com