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Re: xtx_drawtext and empty messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Oct 9 15:17:42 1992
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 15:13:39 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
To: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.cs.unlv.edu>
Cc: zephyr@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9210091853.AA01993@Athena.MIT.EDU> (message from Greg Wohletz on Fri, 09 Oct 92 11:49:21 -0700)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 11:49:21 -0700
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.cs.unlv.edu>
The reason this is happening is that apparently if you use zwrite and
let it prompt you for the message it actually sends two zephyrgrams,
one empty one which is sent immediately, and another one containing
your message which is sent after you finish typing your message.
Is this what is supposed to happen?
Yes. If the first message doesn't get a positive acknowledgement from
the server, zwrite tells you "user foo not logged in..." or some other
message, and does not prompt for the text of your message.
The first message has an opcode field of "ping", which the default
description file should be set up to ignore. Even if you override
this, it shouldn't crash the program...
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