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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: chat.pl instead of expect
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Date: 8 Feb 91 22:05:31 GMT
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In-Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com's message of 8 Feb 91 18:48:21 GMT

In article <1991Feb8.184821.6976@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

   $_ = &chat'read(time + 10); # should be the 220 message within 10 seconds.

Don't know about you, but I am on a slow line connecting (often) to
slow servers on congested links a long ways away.  10 seconds is not
enough in many cases...especially with TCP round trip times of 2 to 3
seconds!

--Ed
emv@ox.com