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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why idle users should be killed (was Re: Preventing Idle in telnet)
Message-ID: <22134:Oct606:55:2690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 06:55:26 GMT
References: <1990Oct2.062510.3419@ecn.purdue.edu> <10547:Oct220:47:2290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1763@tub.UUCP>
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In article <1763@tub.UUCP> net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:
> In article <10547:Oct220:47:2290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> > Is it my fault that one program solves so many problems?
> Yes.  ``Do one thing well''.

But that's what I did! I swear! I mean, it'd even chop a hundred lines
out of your ``screen'' program, while improving portability, if you used
pty! And out of telnetd and expect and window and lots of other programs!
Doesn't this qualify as doing one thing (pseudo-tty management) well?

Sort of like ``cat'', I think, except that cat has been around somewhat
longer. :-)

---Dan