using System V 'cu'

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <4241 at encore.UUCP> by bzs at encore.com (Barry Shein):
+---------------
| In reply James Logan suggests
| >In article <6808 at venera.isi.edu> cracraft at venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
| >>How do you slow down cu's file transfer capability (e.g. the tilde-put
| >>command) ??
| >
| >There are two thing I can think of to try.  The first idea is to
| >give the yourself a nice value of 39.  Just type 
| >
| >	nice -39 $SHELL
| 
| (this increases priority, beyond the max which is silly and may
| actually do nothing, you also have to be super-user, but that's what
| you meant?)
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You DID see the subject line, didn't you?  It very clearly says "System V".
Csh -- BSD, *not* System V -- uses "+nn" to lower priority and "-nn" to
raise it.  Sh and ksh -- which are what are USUALLY found on System V
systems -- use "-nn" to lower priority and "--nn" (yes, that's TWO hyphens)
to raise it.

Sigh.

++Brandon
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