david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) (07/08/89)
I am using NCSA_Telnet to connect to our Sun where I run elm 2.2 PL9. NCSA_Telnet will generate a '/' or a '\' whenever there is activity in one of your open sessions. I had a session running elm 2.2 PL9, with no obvious activity while it sat in the index menu, but I occasionally got the telnet bips that indicated there was some activity. I am just curious, does elm spontaneously generate some invisible characters while you are waiting in the index menu? -David- -- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid Washington University (314) 36-23635 Saint Louis, MO 63110
syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (07/08/89)
In article <507@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
:I am using NCSA_Telnet to connect to our Sun where I run elm 2.2 PL9.
:NCSA_Telnet will generate a '/' or a '\' whenever there is activity in
:one of your open sessions. I had a session running elm 2.2 PL9, with no
:obvious activity while it sat in the index menu, but I occasionally got
:the telnet bips that indicated there was some activity.
:
:I am just curious, does elm spontaneously generate some invisible
:characters while you are waiting in the index menu? -David-
Yes it does, every TIMEOUT seconds it refreshes the index with new mail.
Elm is dumb, and doesn't know whats on the screen, so it updates part
of the screen. It only does this while its on the index menu. This is
how it shows you that new mail has arrived.
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syd@DSI.COM or {bpa,vu-vlsi}!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) (07/08/89)
In article <507@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
+I am just curious, does elm spontaneously generate some invisible
+characters while you are waiting in the index menu? -David-
Yes. The read for user input times out every now and then so that elm
can run through it's main loop and test for newly arrived mail. Such an
iteration ofthe loop may cause the Command: prompt to be rewritten, but
it certainly causes the cursor to move on the screen.
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Product engineer, UNIX/C Reusable Code Library Editor, "Go `C' UNIX"
Office: (415) 823-2417 Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
Residence: (415) 827-4301 R BAR JB, Concord, Californiajonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (07/09/89)
From article <5733@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, by rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo): > In article <507@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes: > +I am just curious, does elm spontaneously generate some invisible > +characters while you are waiting in the index menu? -David- > > Yes. The read for user input times out every now and then so that elm > can run through it's main loop and test for newly arrived mail. In which case I have a bug report. Elm 2.2 at PL10 does not report new mail until after the user pushes a key. It certainly does not read new mail in as it arrives. It would be real nice if it did that and rang a bell to let me know it had done it. That way my window would flash each time new mail arrived. -- ______ JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs Jonathan Knight, / BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science / _ __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk University of Keele, Keele, (_/ (_) / / UUCP :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K.
rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) (07/11/89)
In article <660@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes: +From article <5733@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, by rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo): +> In article <507@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes: +> +I am just curious, does elm spontaneously generate some invisible +> +characters while you are waiting in the index menu? -David- +> +> Yes. The read for user input times out every now and then so that elm +> can run through it's main loop and test for newly arrived mail. + +In which case I have a bug report. Elm 2.2 at PL10 does not report new +mail until after the user pushes a key. It certainly does not read +new mail in as it arrives. It would be real nice if it did that and +rang a bell to let me know it had done it. That way my window would +flash each time new mail arrived. The timeout on the read is 10 minutes. The function that reads the user command returns upon *either* timeout *or* user input. In *either* case, elm runs through this main loop and tests for new mail. -- Rob Bernardo ...![backbone]!pacbell!pbhyf!rob -or- rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM Product engineer, UNIX/C Reusable Code Library Editor, "Go `C' UNIX" Office: (415) 823-2417 Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California Residence: (415) 827-4301 R BAR JB, Concord, California