Re: [htsserver-devel] D-0002.txt: Holsham Traders Server-Replies

[Uwe H. <uh...@bi...>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:24:10PM +0100, Daniel Reutter wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > 
> > The chat-message is an exception, here, because important information is
> > stored in the text-part, which is not a very good solution. I'm not
> > quite sure about how to make this better, at the moment...
> 
> Well, with multi-line responses, it would be possible this way:
> 
> xxx Data approaching
> 000 Data-blabla
> xxx end-of-data

see my other mail.
 
> > > Are we talking some kind of data transmission? What kind of data will we be
> > > sending that uses so much space?
> > 
> > prices, amounts/names of goods...
> > 
> > 
> > And there must be something like an 'init'-command. Everytime the client
> > logs in, it'll need to know the current prices, amounts of goods,
> > positions of his/her transporters etc. etc.
> 
> Perhaps we use another protocol for data transmission...

?

> maybe even another port?

No.

> > It will. The server must inform all affected clients of changing prices,
> > changing amount of goods etc.
> 
> In this case, we *will* need a second protocol,

No. Why should we?

> therefor it could approach data before the 34 bytes are recieved.

Please explain. 



Uwe.
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