[443] in Zephyr_Comments
Formatting commands
amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 22 21:00:17 1990
Jik and I discussed this the other day, and I am now entirely convinced
that formatting in zephyrgrams should be out of band. Thus, the zwrite
program could load from a resource file (or command line options) whether
to recognize Scribe-style, TeX-style, verbatim, etc., for the formatting
commands.
I was also wondering how hard it would be to put an option in zwrite to
cache the recipient location in a file in /tmp, then to read it from there
and bypass the server entirely. Thus, if I'm talking with jik, and I
know he's not going to move from pit-manager for three hours, I shouldn't
tie up the network and the servers --- I personally will often switch to
write, especially if zephyr is already overloaded.
Obviously, this wouldn't help with broadcast messages, but personal
messages could be sped up this way (perhaps at the cost of authentication).
- Rhu
