[351] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: some comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Wed Aug 9 05:00:04 1989
To: tinoue@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 89 04:59:42 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
>1. I want to specify the host machine.
>
> It's inconvenient not to be able to write the host name. If the zephyr
>receiver is logging in 2 or more workstations, zephyr does not work as
>a 'real time' communication since the sender is not sure if the receiver
>is working on the WS that get the message.
Zephyr messages are directed to a user, not a specific instance of a user.
If a user is logged in several times, he will get messages at each machine
he is running zwgc on. Assuming the standard .login file, this means all
machines that are running X windows. If he is not running zwgc, there is
no way for him to get a zephyr message, regardless of how you specify the
recipient.
>2. Impossible correction.
>
> When invoking zwrite in c-shell, I cannot correct the letters in upper lines.
>I think Zephyr usually should be used in emacs or other X-applications.
>As for emacs, I think it is easy to implement Zephyr to it because
>Zephyr just takes a message from standard input.
Take a look at /mit/zephyr/src/zwgc/zwgc.el. This includes a function "zsend",
an emacs interface to zwrite.
>When I was using
>'uwm', I couldn't do that because when I tried to iconify it by pushing
><Meta>MouseLeft, it dissapeared. Maybe my uwm configuration should be wrong
>or that's my fault, but if there are certain ways to iconify or save message to
>files, it might be convenient. Now I am using mwm or twm, there is no problem
>for that though.
I'm not sure why this happens...I've always been able to iconify zephyr windows
under uwm.
Saving messages to files is a much-requested feature; it is implemented in
the new version of zwgc, coming this winter to a workstation near you.
--John Carr
Project Athena Systems Development
