Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!cucard!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!unmvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!pacbell!ditka!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: v11i020: Idle demon Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 90 07:31:45 GMT References: <77@dlss2.UUCP> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 12 I gave up looking about 35% of the way through the code; do you anywhere protect against killing a user during downloads, when the terminal would normally be idle for long (up to several hours with a slow modem and big files) periods of time? I run my own downloads with a script that logs me off and hangs up the phone, then I go to bed. 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. Kent, the man from xanth.