The Hotline Users Digest #155 - Wednesday, April 16, 1997

  Re: MULTICONNECT SPECIFICATION  (connections)
          by  Noah M. Daniels <ndaniel1@swarthmore.edu>
  schedule of Hotline releases?
          by  Dziugas Parsonis <dziugas@headof.osf.lt>


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Subject: Re: MULTICONNECT SPECIFICATION  (connections)
From: "Noah M. Daniels" <ndaniel1@swarthmore.edu> (by way of Phil Hilton)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:02:42 -0400


>>>First of all, the connections would not time out as quickly as they do
in
>>>Anarchie.  And secondly, if they do, it doesn't really matter because it
>>>doesn't take long to reconnect (faster than FTP).
>>
>>It does matter. Say you're on a server and nobody's chatting for a while,
>>so it disconnects you. Then people start chatting. Of course, you don't
>>automatically reconnect, so you miss whatever chat goes on. How do you
>>reconnect if there's no connect button, also? Do you have to close and
>>re-open the window?
>
>The solution is painfully obvious:  simply do not close chat connections
>while the chat window is open :)

then what if you disconnect (like with OT/PPP as you mentioned) and then
want to reconnect? Do you have to close the chat window and reopen it? I
want to be able to say 'connect' to connect.


-- Noah M. Daniels
    ndaniel1@swarthmore.edu
   http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~ndaniel1/
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      - Jonathan Swift

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Subject: schedule of Hotline releases?
From: Dziugas Parsonis <dziugas@headof.osf.lt> (by way of Phil Hilton)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:08:39 -0400

Really love your To Do list for Hotline Client and Server. Any idea on
the schedule of Hotline releases? Seems like you've already got enough
ideas for several future versions. And btw. how do you expect (if you do
expect) Hotline being used at offices while the evaluation copy is
basically undocumented. Hotline web pages do not have this info either
(except for promo FAQ). HL Client has some undocumented tricks that are
quite frustrating for new users, especially when information on them is
found mostly in HL servers of dubious credibility and often it's
misleading (it seems that these tricks change from release to release).

Regards,

Dziugas Parsonis



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