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From: tadguy@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov.UUCP
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Subject: Re: v11i020: Idle demon
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Date: 27 Aug 90 07:49:52 GMT
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In-Reply-To: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu's message of Thu, 23 Aug 90 14:38:04 GMT

In article <1990Aug23.143804.24954@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz@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