Re: Word Processor

[mcafee@seawolf.rs.itd.umich.edu (Sean McAfee)]

In article <C111496230956.8532@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org>,
Dark_Dude <Dark_Dude@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org> wrote:
>>That project would still be a ways in the future, though, since I'll soon
>>be hauling my IIgs TCP/IP implementation out of mothballs after an
>>eighteen-month hiatus (right after I release AmaTerm v.2).

>So, how far were you with your TCP/IP program? Was it already useable, will it
>be a concurrent product of what Derek has been writing? Can you tell us more
>about it? :)

I had gotten as far as negotiating a PPP connection, and had written some
very, very preliminary code to send an IP datagram which crashed my machine
when I tried it.  I put the project on hold soon after.  (I'd set up
a process running on a school machine which listened on a port for a
message from my GS, which unfortunately never came.)

My project was independent of Derek's.  Like everyone else, I'd heard
rumors of GS/TCP for quite a while, and finally decided to try it myself.
I figured that the project would be worthwhile even if the rumors were
true, since I'd get some valuable programming experience.

Part of the reason I shelved my project was because of reports that GS/TCP
was very close to being released.  Now it's well over a year later, and
very little further has been heard.  I'm tired of waiting.

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