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From: spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestion for vt100r2.8: external file-transfer programs
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Date: 24 Jan 88 04:57:45 GMT
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Reply-To: spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
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This was originally suggested in AmigaMail by Carolyn (right?), and I
say the same thing I did then, "Great!  Who is going to pay me for it?"

I wouldn't be that hard to design.  Don't open the serial port in
shared mode, that means the same as opening a file shared, multiple 
readers, no writers.  So, instead, the code could be done as a library
or something, and you just send it a pointer to the serial device that
you got when you opened it.  Also send pointers to the files to send,
and arguments that specify all the variables (packet size, ACK character,
timeouts, etc...).

So, shall we form another ARP like group all centered around VT100 and
get these protocols going?

***BTW***

I think that the single most important thing for the next release of
VT100 is something that has been missing all along.  I WANT THE MOUSE
POINTER TO GO AWAY WHEN I TYPE, AND RETURN WHEN I MOVE THE MOUSE!!!!

ok, got that out of my system.  Now don't say "run Mouseoff", as I only
want that to happen in VT100, most of the time I use the mouse alot
and don't want it disappearing on me, but VT100 only uses the mouse
for menus and then it has keyboard equivilants, so I *never* use the mouse
(well, almost never, I do need to clear the screen).
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