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Re: tlf-0.8.1 full network version is ready for testing



On Fri, Oct 04, 2002, Jaime Robles wrote:
> On the other hand i have been reading the tlfdoc and i like the way you have 
> solved the problem of the station ID but maybe you could save some "bytes" 
> without that... maybe the IP number would be enought for that...
> You can just name the stations with their IP and then in the program 
> controlling who is each IP.... some packets at the begining of the program to 
> identify each station and then no more packets with the "station's name", 
> just the IP.

Be careful, more than one tlf process can run on one computer (same IP).
Just imagine a computer with a VT100 connected (okay, VT220 is better:)
besides the console. No need to have a second computer if the first one 
has a serial port.
The same applies in client/server X11 environnement.

73's
Stephane



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