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Tritty / Trickle allows you to slow down any pseudo terminals and linux ttys without the use of RS232 serials. It offers finer "charactor print" than that of pv.


Limitation(s)

break hotkey/key doesn't work while the printing is in process this is due to the fact that Trickle uses pipe. If a user have sent ctrl+z while the content of a certain text file is being printed on the screen,says at 300 baud, it will not halt the process.




to install trickle on unix-like systems, you will need to clone from github and compile those orbs

install git

Debian-based distros

apt install git

NetBSD

pkgin install git

then clone to your soap box

git clone https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle.git

navigate to cloned dir

cd trickle

to compile type the following

make

then run the following as root

make install

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usage
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set print rate, of terminal, to 300 baud

tritty -b300

restarting terminal will revert the changes


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run vim at 300 baud

vim | trickle -b300

keep in mind that colours must be manually turned off (in ~/.vimrc). Otherwise, the print head will not only print ~ also it prints the invisible black background



browse orbs on w3m at 12900 baud (12.9K)

w3m www.diy.com | trickle -b12900

Since Trickle doesn't alter stty settings telnet (servers) will report system (stty) speed. A workaround is to set tty spped to match trickle's settings (this is not really necessary, unless you would like to inform telnet users/sysorbs that you are on 300 baud)

stty speed 300

telnet will now reports terminal speed at 300 baud