Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!rmi!shimoda
From: shimoda@rmi.UUCP (Markus Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish list for VT100 R > 2.8
Message-ID: <914@rmi.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 15:27:09 GMT
References: <9021@sunybcs.UUCP> <10599@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: shimoda@rmi.UUCP (Markus Schmidt)
Organization: RMI Net, Aachen, W.Germany
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In article <10599@ut-sally.UUCP> bryan@rodan.cs.utexas.edu writes:
: In article <9021@sunybcs.UUCP> ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald) writes:
: =-
: =-...
: =-I was just connected to a friend's Amiga (Hi Shawn) and we were both in VT100.
: =-File transfers went smoothly, but when we were typing to each other, our
: =-characters were intermingled as we typed. We had to agree on typing return,^J
: =-'>' to let the other know we were done typing (like radio: 'over', and
: =-'over and out'). I got to thinking, it would be nice if I could have my
: =-characters appear in a seperate window from the incoming characters, ie: a
: =-output window and in input window. This way we wouldn't step all over each
: =-other. 
: 	Unfortunately, in full duplex mode there's no way to distinguish
: between echoed characters and characters originating at the other machine.
: What's needed is some kind of protocol to separate the two.  I think adding
: yet another feature like this to vt100 would be a wasted effort.  A much
: better idea would be a 'talk' client/server pair for DNET.

Oh, there is a way!
You hold your own sending back, until you hit CR and send it as a "packet"
then. And all that is coming in will be shown in the other window.
Btw, I think in chatting everyone will use hdx-echo, so thats no
problem too. (?)

C u
Markus
(shimoda@rmi.uucp)