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.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    4 months ago

    Ed is great (in this context). I think there’s been posts about it on here before. It’s just a text editor, though.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah. I’ve had mentors regail me of other tools they used alongside ‘Ed’, but I wasn’t listening very attentively. Hopefully that’s something that can be dug out of the history of the Internet.

      I would definitely choose the old reliable stuff over something new and fancy, if I had this use case.