Hi, Bob.

BL>  -=> Quoting Frank Malcolm to Paul Edwards on 05-04-96 14:07 <=-

BL>  FM> As you may recall the TinyPoint Telix script puts diamonds on
BL>  FM> the screen while waiting for the Enq. In the past it showed 1
BL>  FM> or maybe 2, but recently (this week?) it's been a line and a
BL>  FM> half. It's not a significant delay (really just flashes up),
BL>  FM> but I thought you might be interested.

BL>   Brenton has written a complicated loop in Tinypoint, and my guess is
BL> that Paul now sends stuff immediately, rather than making us wait, so
BL> Brenton's loop just runs to the maximum count and stops. It really
BL> needs to be rewritten, but it seems to work anyway.

It's not *that* complicated, just wait for a 2-second timeout or an ENQ,
whatever comes first. Print a diamond every time through the loop. I
don't know what cinp_cnt() does, if it actually waits for a character
then we're receiving ~120 (a line & a half) characters before getting
the ENQ. If it exits immediately if there's no character, then Paul is
delaying however long it takes to write ~120 diamonds before sending the
ENQ.

I think that functionality is exactly correct, the loop doesn't need to
be rewritten.

Regards, fIM.

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