[395] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: suggested changes to zwrite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 1 10:17:26 1989
From: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Oct 89 09:35:14 -0400.
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 89 10:16:41 EST
> I have a couple changes I'd like to make to zwrite for a future release:
>
> 1) an option to not interpret `.' on a line by itself as special (this
> would allow the sending of certain files which would be truncated under
> the current implementation)
i'd agree, and further suggest that whenever zwrite gets
its input from a pipe that the ``.'' character be treated
as a normal (non-special) character.
> 2) an option to ignore the delivery response. This would make zwrite
> more useful in maintenance scripts where the delivery message is
> ignored. Additionally, if there is a zephyr server service
> interruption, this option would allow the script to complete operation.
an important addition for supporting hands-off use of zephyr.
i concur.
--dan
