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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] ~non_terminated...</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Jul 27 18:15:40 1996
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From: Jay Carlson &lt;nop@nop.com&gt;
To: Andrew Wilson &lt;andrew@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk&gt;
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jul 96 18:55:23 BST."
             &lt;199607271755.SAA02649@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk&gt; 
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 96 18:02:10 -0400

&gt; Oh, and another thing...

&gt; The ~non_terminated behaviour is there to make output to telnet
&gt; clients look neat:
&gt;
&gt;    Please enter yes or no [yes]: no
&gt;    
&gt;    ^ server output.............. ^ user input
&gt;
&gt; Which is kind of pointless if you're not using telnet, but are
&gt; instead using a 'split screen' client which separates input from
&gt; output.

Right, which brings up issues of exactly what your target audience is.
Most of the MOO high-tech people, for example, use clients that assume
that the server speaks newline separated records.  In fact, at least
two clients I know of will lock up hard if they get partial lines in
violation of this protocol.

You guys really need to negotiate for this kind of thing.

&gt; Mmm.

mmm, underdocumented assumptions.

Jay Carlson
nop@nop.com    nop@ccs.neu.edu    nop@kagoona.mitre.org

Flat text is just *never* what you want.   ---stephen p spackman
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