Re: Command to read from a comm LINE

Someone mumbled something about ICF and CPI-C... the main difference
is that ICF does everything with EXCPT to output specs; CPI-C via
program calls.

And as far as how complicated communication programs are...  well,
it's a lot of detail, but not hard to understand.  Imagine a typical
phone call:  Pick up receiver / listen for dial tone / dial / called
party says hello this is fred / this is bob / hi bob / I have a
message for you / let's hear it / ....

Communication programs do the same thing, but with the assortment of
program calls or EXCPTs.  Then, once you have a basic program
running, you go back and add another layer of detail for error
monitoring, etc.  Lost of detail, but once you have a single program
working, you just clone it!  (:

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com