Re: MCP 2.1

[ramsdell@linus.mitre.org (John D. Ramsdell)]

Let me suggest that a specific out-of-band message be defined to be
semantically equivalent to an in-band message.  One could call the
request text-line with argument text.  As a result, the MCP command:

  #$#text-line 123 :text "You are Outside"

would be completely equivalent to the text line

  You are Outside

With this addition, one could implement an MCP parser that always
returns an MCP object, and the MCP object for a text line would have
text-line as its request and a text argument. 

John