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echo: binkd
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: ANDREW CLARKE
date: 2015-02-24 01:41:00
subject: File requesting with bink

23 Feb 15 11:42, you wrote to Developers:

 MV> Question: Does it make sense that binkd waits for a connect to be
 MV> initited by the creation of a *.?lo file or would it be more logical
 MV> to have the *.req file initiate the connect all by itself?

The only immediate issue I see with this is that if there was a timing problem
where the REQ file is created but erroneously remained empty or incomplete
until after the poll was made.

But now that I think about it, this is also possible with ?LO and ?UT files...

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