Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Grymmjack
From : Deuce
Date : Fri Jul 01 2005 03:44 pm

  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Grymmjack to Deuce on Thu Jun 30 2005 22:52:00

 >  >  > are you serious (not the donation, the character pacing) ... ?
 >  >  >
 >  >  > if so how is that even possible given the way tcp/ip works? (i'm assum
 >  >  > of course this is the point of the feature since the baud rate of a
 >  >  > modem connection serves the same purpose)...
 >  >
 >  > It's client side... the SERVER sends it as fast as it likes, but the term
 >  > will not display characters faster than the set rate.  Just require the n
 >  > displayed character to be 1/bps seconds after the previous.
 >  >
 >  > In practice, Win32 seems to be unable to do timing-based pacing faster th
 >  > 19200 or so... but it does work.
 >  >
 > 
 > ahhh.. i see. i thought you meant it was a feature added into synchronet and
 > not synchterm. my confusion and my apology.

Yeah, it is implossible to do it server side correctly.

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