I think I have been down this path before, but it was a while ago and I cannot
find any reference and I am not in a position to have a look at the srchives
just at the moment.

When a user is logged into a rlogin, telnet, or ssh session over TCP sockets
there is often the occasion that one stroke of the keyboard can produce a string
of characters (Fkeys, arrow keys, etc)

What is the best way to keep this string together in a given TCP packet instead
of being split over 2 or 3 packets.

The problem is that at the receiving end there could be a timing problem where
if the string gets split over more than, say, 10 msec then it not considered to
be the result of just one keypress, but is considered to be the result of a
number of individual key presses and thus gets handled differently.

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