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It reads from a drive, encrypts each file and writes it, so there is an element of a large buffer to hold.

I Wouldn't think that the terminal is the actual problem, but running the same job side by side consistently failed on the gnome terminal and finished successfully on urxvt.

On a side note, OP remark on CD-ROMs was regarding writing, CD-ROMs write feed had to be an uninterrupted, continuous stream, and the smallest hiccup would blow the operation and render the media useless.




Yup. It wasnt fun writing CDs back in then days




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