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- Talk for Envoy * Version 1.2a - 4/17/94
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- Written by Jeffrey A. Litz
- Copyright ©1994 JL Productions
-
- litz@cs.uwp.edu -or- Jeff_Litz@EDTNG.Kenosha.WI.US
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-
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- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
- Talk lets you chat with another person on your network. It brings up
- a requester on that machine stating you wish to chat with them. If
- no response is received, it will timeout - to prevent the connection
- from hanging forever.
-
- This is probably the SIMPLIEST practical two-way communcation example
- of an Envoy service.
-
- CLI version only. No workbench frontend exists at this time.
-
- All files related to this service are free to use and free to distribute.
- You are free to modified them as well, as long as proper credit is given.
-
-
-
- SETUP
- -----
- Any machine you wish to initiate a talk with must have talk.service
- installed (and active) on it using Services Configuration.
-
- You must have talk.service installed (and active) on your machine if any
- other machine wishes to initiate a talk to you.
-
- (Plus, a reboot to "activate" the service.)
-
-
-
- OPTIONS - COMMAND LINE
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- TALK <machine name>
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-
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- UPDATES
- -------
- o Fancy font sensitive requester will be added shortly.
-
- o Put doc's in Amiga Guide format
-
-
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- OTHER SERVICES
- --------------
- CONF - a conference service is also currently available.
-
- A message (mail) service is in the works and shall be finished shortly.
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-
-
- CREDITS
- -------
- I'd like to thank all the people who worked on Envoy. Especially Ken Dyke
- for putting up with all my questions and bug reports as well as a sample
- service to follow.
-
-
-
- HISTORY
- -------
-
- ??/??/?? v1.00 written to help debug envoy in it's very early stages
-
- ^
- |
- v
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- 6/30/92 Original Release v1.10
-
- ^
- | Code sat around collecting dust waiting to find a use.
- v
-
- 4/15/94 Updated StartService() in TK.C to work correctly with the latest
- Envoy release.
-
- 4/16/94 Overall general code clean up.
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- Added an icon for talk.service.
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- 4/17/94 Added some comments to the source.
-
- General code clean up and fixes - added trans_Timeout's that
- were missing from some DoTransaction()'s.
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- VERY VERY QUICK fix for requester problem with VERY LONG
- machine names. A fancy font sensitive requester will be available
- soon.
-