v11i020: Idle demon
tadguy at abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov.UUCP
tadguy at abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov.UUCP
Mon Aug 27 17:49:52 AEST 1990
In article <1990Aug23.143804.24954 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz at cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes:
> > ... I'd be a little huffy about having my kermit
> >session killed in mid-download because I hadn't sent a keystroke in a
> >while.
>
> But, but, kermit (and all other error-correcting download protocols) send in
> keystrokes all the time!
Except that kermit uses /dev/tty, so on many UNIXes, the real tty line
appears idle, even though characters are going by all the time...
...tad
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