From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Re: Communication between users Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8027 Posted: Fri Jul 16 08:21:07 1982 Received: Sat Jul 17 02:45:10 1982 >From LCAMPBELL@DEC-MARLBORO Fri Jul 16 08:20:23 1982 Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't the easiest thing be to copy the TOPS-20 LINK feature? You just add a couple of words to the terminal line database, that can be diddled by an appropriate system call, so that User1 LINKing to User2 causes User2's terminal data block to indicate that the terminal driver should copy all output for User2's terminal to User1's terminal as well. This certainly sounds easier than spawning processes and mailboxes and all... --------