From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   I have been struggling with when to use XON, but just   
   now I realized that I don't need XON to communicate   
   with eternal-september. The NNTP protocol already has   
   appropriate markers so that I know when to switch   
   to/from reading/writing.   
      
   So I now have a design for a C90-compliant news reader.   
      
   It will open a device, such as "COM1" on PDOS/386 or   
   "0x10001" on z/PDOS, as "r+b" and start reading characters   
   until it hits whatever endless-september uses as end-of-line   
   marker (they are the server, they can do whatever the fuck   
   they want - I'm pretty sure it is CRLF), and translates from   
   ASCII to the local character set.   
      
   This will get the 0200 line that eternal-september puts out.   
      
   There will be an fseek SEEK_CUR 0 as required by the C90   
   standard prior to then doing a write, which needs to be sent   
   in ASCII as "LIST\r\n" (that's what I currently do, but it isn't   
   actually necessary).   
      
   This setup will replace the crappy TCP/IP calls that I   
   currently do.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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