M J Dowden wrote:

>      Sorry, but no. I just stopped using ssh2 and went back to ssh1. 
> The problem was simply that ssh2 in one version worked fine, but in 
> the next version of the OS, it became unusably slow.

I use ssh1 on my pc532 (heh, at least it's faster than some vaxes :-).
ssh1 is much faster than ssh2, and not really that much slower than rsh:

	thoreau 1> time rsh pc532 date
	Fri Apr 29 12:24:54 EST 2005
	0.000u 0.004s 0:04.12 0.0%      0+0k 0+4io 0pf+0w

	thoreau 2> time rsh pc532 date
	Fri Apr 29 12:24:59 EST 2005
	0.000u 0.003s 0:04.62 0.0%  0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

	thoreau 3> time ssh -1 pc532 date
	Fri Apr 29 12:24:24 EST 2005
	0.000u 0.021s 0:13.84 0.1%      0+0k 0+7io 2pf+0w

	thoreau 4> time ssh -1 pc532 date
	Fri Apr 29 12:24:43 EST 2005
	0.021u 0.000s 0:13.61 0.1%      0+0k 0+5io 0pf+0w

	thoreau 5> time ssh -2 pc532 date
	Fri Apr 29 12:26:58 EST 2005
	0.049u 0.014s 1:54.92 0.0%      0+0k 0+6io 0pf+1w

	thoreau 6> time ssh -2 pc532 date
	Fri Apr 29 12:29:02 EST 2005
	0.046u 0.018s 1:53.88 0.0%      0+0k 0+2io 0pf+1w

Simon.
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