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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Multi-User Chat System
Summary: definitely possible
Keywords: Software.
Message-ID: <6917@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 91 14:51:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcrware.6917
References: <97@sandv.UUCP>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <97@sandv.UUCP> Steve@sandv.UUCP (Steve Laisch) writes:
>Okay.. here is what I would LIKE to do and if you can, can you people tell me
>how to do it, how to go about it, or perhaps if it is even possible. I would
>like to write a multi user chat program in BASIC09 for the 512K Color
>Computer 3.

It's definitely possible, since RCIS BBSs running on CoCo 3s under OS-9 do it.
How to do it?  There are various possibilities--perhaps it would be easiest to
have a data module that processes running chat could link to, insert text into
and read text from.  One would need some sort of mutual exclusion mechanism,
of course.

	James Jones