On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Andrew Brown wrote:

> laggy network also sounds reasonable, except until you consider that
> when i press the up arrow, all three characters are sent *at once*. i
> just don't get it.

Quite possibly they aren't sent all at once. If your TCP stack is
optimizing for interactive performance, and your application writes
the three characters separately, the first character may get sent
immediately on the first write, and the following ones could end up in a
separate packet.

cjs
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