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- From: davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.sources.d
- Subject: Re: PHONE port and parameters?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.115017.16978@montagar.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 11:50:17 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.185621.5207@iitmax.iit.edu> <27AUG199221163604@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu>
- Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX
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- In article <27AUG199221163604@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu>, sysop writes:
- > In article <1992Aug25.185621.5207@iitmax.iit.edu>, bruifal@elof.iit.edu (Falke Bruinsma) writes...
- >>
- >>Hello
- >>
- >>Can anyone tell me what the parameters are for PHONE? Last year I wrote a
- >>program that could dump _any_ message on someone elses screen.
- >
- > WARNING: It is easy for the second program (TAP) to get hung during its' read
- > from the PHN$ mailbox while it waits for the Phone partner to enter something.
- > PHONE's read ASTs will inevitably strip characters from the mailbox before you
- > may read them, so trying to "listen in" on conversations becomes a mess of
- > sporadic (about every 3rd) character. Therefore this is program doesn't try
- > to fool with listening.
-
- Back in college (VMS V3.0 days, when PHONE first came out!) I wrote a
- program that would read and display conversations, virtually undetectable.
- It would read and post-back the data, and then re-read. Since I/O's are
- queued, it tended to interleave with PHONE fairly nicely. Every now and again
- it would transpose a couple of characters, but that was generally ignored as
- typo's by those you were tapping :-)
-
- Sorry, but I don't have the code anymore.
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