<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Dave Crocker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net" target="_blank">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I especially liked reference to a pacman-like function.  When the user<br>
hit control-c, the packet that got sent ate any preceding terminal<br>
traffic that it encountered along the way to the server...<br>
<span class="im"></span><br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I believe that was called a "character gobbler". Also used when (hard?) zapping a circuit. (I think I have my terminology right.)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't know who came up with the name, but I like it. :)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's briefly mentioned here:<br><a href="http://cap-lore.com/Tymnet/BP.html">http://cap-lore.com/Tymnet/BP.html</a><br><a href="http://cap-lore.com/Tymnet/TOCN.html">http://cap-lore.com/Tymnet/TOCN.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jim<br><br></div></div>