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From: ngorelic@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Dnet, another confused customer.
Keywords: close, but it's dark, and I can't tell.
Message-ID: <2238@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 04:31:12 GMT
Organization: Big Blue Box
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	After having it sit in my spool directory for many months now, I 
finally got around to playing with Dnet.  What I ended up doing is
executing it from my unix user shell, and escaping out of my terminal 
program, back to my Ami to start the Amiga end.
It worked fine, but when I logged out of the shell that Dnet started, 
and ran quitdnet, it nuked my fterm window and then just sat there, talking
to the unix machine, but not letting go of the serial port.  


	Question #1) Why didn't it let go of the Serial Port?

	         #2) Is there some easy way to have a "chat" mode, where
	             a complete line of input is spooled, and sent as one 
	             packet?  (It's very annoying to have a two second or so
	             echo time, per character.  'specially for us 
	             non-touch typists.)

	         #3) Is it supposed to be run from a user shell?
	             (Ok, so it's probably a dumb question, but gimme a break)

	I couldn't get a loadaverage window running either.  It said 
"no connection" and quit. 

	From the Layman's point of view, ie: I compiled and run it once, it 
_appears_that Dnet is simply just another term program with it's own 
special version of Protocal's for talking and X-fer's.  What I wan't to 
know is what else have people been able to make it do?

(I believe it would be much more useful in a high speed environment, ie:
direct connections, or 9600 baud lines...)

Bamf

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