pasting into an ssh connection painfully slow... sometimes

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> My department manages some Netscreen NS208 firewalls.
> 
> If I ssh into them with the cygwin ssh client (either with rxvt or
> with cygwin from a cmd.exe prompt), pasting into the session runs like
> a 2400 baud modem.
> 
> If I ssh into them with something else such as PuTTY, then the paste
> function works just like it does on other systems: fast.
> 
> I don't have this problem with cygwin ssh on systems other than the 
> Netscreens.
> 
> PuTTY doesn't have any special configuration done to it so that it
> works.  I just connect and its okay.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this sort of slowness and if so, how did you 
> fix it?

Perhaps Netscreen recognizes PuTTY as an "OK" app but not 'ssh'.  Worth a
check.

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