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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Does elm generate invisible screen updates?
Summary: Yes, it updates the index every TIMEOUT seconds with incoming mail
Keywords: elm 2.2 PL9 invisible ascii
Message-ID: <1989Jul8.151514.1995@DSI.COM>
Date: 8 Jul 89 15:15:14 GMT
References: <507@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <507@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
:I am using NCSA_Telnet to connect to our Sun where I run elm 2.2 PL9.
:NCSA_Telnet will generate a '/' or a '\' whenever there is activity in
:one of your open sessions.  I had a session running elm 2.2 PL9, with no
:obvious activity while it sat in the index menu, but I occasionally got
:the telnet bips that indicated there was some activity.
:
:I am just curious, does elm spontaneously generate some invisible
:characters while you are waiting in the index menu?  -David-

Yes it does, every TIMEOUT seconds it refreshes the index with new mail.
Elm is dumb, and doesn't know whats on the screen, so it updates part
of the screen.  It only does this while its on the index menu. This is
how it shows you that new mail has arrived.


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