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Re: LUGNet Chat
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 22:24:35 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMsaynotospam.ORG
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Alex Wetmore <alex@phred.org> wrote:
Talkers of the type which you are talking about are very hard to use unless
you use a special telnet client such as tinyfugue.  Without one incoming
talk lines will show up in the middle of what you are typing.

That's not true. Linemode is a standard telnet option and should be
supported by any good telnet client. See RFC #1184.

A lot of places don't use this so that you don't have to press enter after
every command. Which is generally a poor tradeoff.


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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message slrn71t391.8c1.mattd....bu.edu... (...) unless (...) Yes, I know this. But using standard telnet with a talk system in linemode means that other peoples text will interrupt your typing. I (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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Richard Franks <richard@__no_spam_p...pider.com> wrote in message 361D3CC9.3F87@__no_s...der.com... (...) heyday (...) Talkers of the type which you are talking about are very hard to use unless you use a special telnet client such as tinyfugue. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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