Garbo/Garbo.cdr/mac/comm/yammer.txt

Text File | 1991-05-20 | 1.6 KB | 35 lines

I wrote "not for redistribution" in the about box to discourage those
"$20 for a public domain disk" people.  You, however, can feel free
to distribute it, so long as you do not charge anything for it.  By
the way, you might find the following useful:

As you type, Yammer sends the stream of characters to the other end
of the connection.  Because you can't recall characters once they
have been sent (which is logical), the backspace character has its
limits.  For this reason, Yammer stays a few characters behind you,
so that you may correct those little mistakes.  The amount by which
Yammer keeps behind you defaults to 16 characters, and is configurable
with ResEdit.  With ResEdit, open the "PREF" resource, and change
the number next to "backlog".  The other two fields, "recv save" and
"send save" are the buffer sizes for the receiving and sending panes
(i.e. how much text is saved in those two portions of the window).
When these values are exceeded, Yammer removes about 100 characters,
and tries to respect line boundaries.

One more thing:  if you hit the "enter" key, what you have typed will
be sent to the other end (leaving no backlog until you resume typing).
This is handy when you know you are through with a thought.  Also, if
you hold down the command key and hit "return", the buffer is similarly
flushed, and the return is entered in the text as normal.

Oh, another non-feature: you can copy from the recieve pane and paste
in the send pane.  I tested by typing a hunk of data at one end, then
going to the other end, doing a "Select All"-"Copy"-"Paste" combo.
repeating this step gives nice exponential growth of the send text.

That's it.

Mark.