v11i020: Idle demon

[tadguy at abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov.UUCP]

In article <1990Aug23.143804.24954 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz at cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes:
> >                     ...  I'd be a little huffy about having my kermit
> >session killed in mid-download because I hadn't sent a keystroke in a
> >while.
> 
> But, but, kermit (and all other error-correcting download protocols) send in
> keystrokes all the time!

Except that kermit uses /dev/tty, so on many UNIXes, the real tty line
appears idle, even though characters are going by all the time...

	...tad