ytalk + log

Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:14:32 -0500 (EST)

So, I was talking (electronically, using the 'talk' program) with someone
the other day, and when we were done, he said, "I liked those ideas you
mentioned. Can you send me an email with everything we just talked about?"

I did, but that was a waste of typing. So I wrote a little addition to
'ytalk' (source from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/chat/
ytalk-3.1.tar.gz) to log talk sessions to a file.

There are some interesting issues that I haven't really dealt with, like
what happens when people start interrupting each other. This is a
'transcript' of one of the pilot tests of my little additions:

-- bayern@tick.zoo.cs.yale.edu:

-- djb52@morpheus:
p
-- bayern@tick.zoo.cs.yale.edu:
-
-- djb52@morpheus:
er
-- bayern@tick.zoo.cs.yale.edu:
coo

:)

Anyway, the source is in ~bayern/ytalk-3.1 on the Zoo. I just figured I
should tell *someone* about the code, since it's not really ready to
release or even send to the 'ytalk' author yet. It's really very simple;
'log.c' is basically the file I add to the ytalk source. It's very much a
simple, quick hack job.

Comments? Questions? Suggestions for what to do about the situations
where people interrupt each other?

Shawn