[269] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: brief 'operational' example of inter-realm zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Thu May 18 14:37:34 1989
Date: Thu, 18 May 89 14:37:11 EDT
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Joe Harrington's message of Thu, 18 May 89 14:27:22 EDT,
Date: Thu, 18 May 89 14:27:22 EDT
From: Joe Harrington <jh@VENUS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
why the different interface for instances and specific recipients?
zwrite -i bar -realm LCS.MIT.EDU
zwrite foo@LCS.MIT.EDU
I suppose we could require
zwrite foo -realm LCS.MIT.EDU
for specific recipients, but that seems a bit clunky. The -realm
specification is necessary for instance sending, since we can't tack the
@REALM onto the instance (since zephyr instances are allowed to have
@'s in them).
[alternatively, we could have foreign-realm multicast instance messages
sent by
zwrite -i bar @REALM.MIT.EDU
which has an implicit multicast recipient in the foreign realm, but that
is likely to confuse users even further.]
John
