Re: Re: telegard
  By: Scott Adams to Gene Buckle on Thu Jan 11 2007 12:14 am

 >      I ought to sit down one day and release those utils I've done for TG
 >      for the last 20 years or so.  Last count i did about 82 of them.
 >      But i think I only officially released to the public about 10.
 >      Most went to friends and personal use.  Maybe one day...another
 >      project on my list of 30 or so projects :)
 >
The original author of TTT and TOT told the FP maintainers that it was ok for
people to port his toolkits and send them out for use with FP.  

Were the tools you wrote for dealing with the TG datafiles?


 >  GB> The rate limiter is part of the output routine.  It just sticks the
 >  GB> appropriate delay in before printing each character.  I came up with
 >  GB> the technique for it when I was working on a .Net version of an Apple
 >  GB> ][ BBS called Pirates of Puget Sound.  That will eventually see the
 >  GB> light of day as well. :)
 > 
 >      Sounds interesting and makes sense.  But that could mess up
 >      with some ansis and games wouldn't it? Back in college we
 >      wrote a term program (basic bbs that did msgs, files/downloads/
 >      uploads and chat).  Was easy using the Async stuff back in
 >      the days as it was the only thing to use (back in 14.4 days).
 >      One of the advanced ideas was a concept like yours doing
 >      a rate thing to downgrade it to 300.  I seem to recall i
 >      did something like that but had trouble with fast typing in
 >      chat if i recall?  It has been 15 or so years.
 > 

It actually wouldn't cause any problems at all.  The limiter is only part of
the bbs and doesn't impact any external functions.  If I can get moving this
weekend, I'll try to get it back online so you can see what I mean.

g.
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