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From: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine.
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:

> But which other programs? I'm not talking about the chat programs where
> you send one line and then have to wait for the other to answer. What
> I'm talking about is that the users can simoultaneously write and you
> see every keystroke as they are typed on the other side. 

This is already implemented in 'talk'.

>From the manpage:

     his login-name is the same.  Once communication is established, the two
     parties may type simultaneously, with their output appearing in separate
     windows.


So that you're getting lines instead of keystrokes surely points to a very
overloaded connection :)

> Other featured that would be nice is adding ssl 

ssl could be added to talk through stunnel on a different socket, directly
connecting to the local existing non-ssl-talk-daemon. I agree that for
clients real ssl-support would be port-saving (of 1).


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