2009/10/31 John A. Grahor <j...@techma.com>: > I'd like a terminal emulator that has a "dumb" terminal mode, i.e. where > line editing can happen locally and what one types is only sent to the tty > when one hits return (or some other key). > > I use ssh to connect to hosts with very slow, high latency satellite links. > It is exceedingly painful to type on a link like this and there's no way to > put ssh into a line mode as can be done with telnet.
Can't you do something like this (connecting with ssh to the satellite for just a command): ssh u...@sat 'cat >> /some/file.txt' < file.txt This can be extended with the use of ed of course. Kind regards, Anselm