R.Wieser wrote:

I do not fully agree there. In the affected programs case certain keystroke
combinations can result in rather time-consuming actions (like writing
to/reading from floppy), which also could cause error messages to pop up
(the floppy not beying ready). You don't want to have some type-ahead chars
answering those "what to do now?" messages.

Also, I get the feeling that its not fully the DOS programs fault. A max
of 11 chars/sec is way too slow, even when a gets/flush sequence is
interfering with the user typing chars.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

On Linux, you can use Xsendkeys to send characters to a window.

I think Windows has sendkeys, but I don't know what the
best packaging would be.

If you write your own program, you could add a parameter
to set the character rate.

Windows Virtual PC uses a SendKeys approach to implement
host to guest copy/paste. Which is fine, until some
text gets lost.

VirtualBox, I think once the driver is installed, it
interacts at the buffer level instead. Which gives
better integrity on copies, but doesn't allow
"consumption throttling".

If you're suitably motivated, I bet it can be fixed.

Paul