Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine.

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:36:04 GMT, Frank wrote:
> Im not using chat-programs alot. But are there anyone that offers
> encryption?
> If not - could that be an idea?

Yes, but as I said before it is not a chat program where one send one
line of text at a time, but rather a stream of characters that are
continously read. I don't know if it makes sense trying to encrypt one
character, but I haven't read much about encryption so I do not know.
But if it is possible it would be nice.

One problem I thought of now is that on a multi-user environment I have
to be able pass the connection to the correct user. The daemonn need to
be connected to a standard port so that the other machine can connect to
it I would think. I'm unsure how to do this. I think I should check the
source code of talk and the talkd daemon. On Windows (or Mac) it is
easier as then the environment is single user so the program that the
user run can connect directly to the port.

Preben
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