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Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic) (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 months ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
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I've been playing with an idea that would involve running a machine over a delay-tolerant mesh network. The thing is, each packet is precious and needs to be pretty much self contained in that situation, while modern systems assume SSH-like continuous interaction with the user.

Has anyone heard of anything pre-existing that would work here? I figured if anyone would know about situations where each character is expensive, it would be you folks.

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[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I guess you could just programmatically insert a > after every command. That's actually a pretty good idea. It's kind of obvious now that you mention it, haha!

It would be better if the tools expected to be used this way, but as a quick kludge for a project about something else it's probably sufficient.

[โ€“] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The first step is to make it work (at all, even badly).