Re: [colorforth] TCP State Engine

[Albert van der Horst <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, John Drake wrote:

>
> > > And you can't do this because.......?
> >
> > Becasue I have to study the RFC, how many here have
> > bothered to that
> > before commenting on his post? The more time I spend
> > responding to such
> > "points", the less time I have for that.
> >
> > Mark
>
> And someone is reaching through your the Internet,
> grabbing your keyboard and forcing you to do things
> you don't want to do.  Man, TCP really IS a monster!
> I honestly don't see what your point is to some of
> these "responses".  For instance why was it again
> that you take exception to Sam's 5 block estimate
> for wget?  Is it that you don't believe Chuck's
> 3 block estimate for TCP?  Or do you not think
> that wget might be built from another 2 blocks?

Reality check. The built in summary of wget is 5k.
The long names of the options (could be Forth words because
wget is almost a mini-interpreter) takes the better part of
two screens.
These are the words names, no code included.

--version --help --background --execute=COMMAND
--output-file=FILE --append-output=FILE --debug --quiet
--verbose --non-verbose --input-file=FILE --force-html
--base=URL --sslcertfile=FILE --sslcertkey=KEYFILE
--egd-file=FILE --bind-address=ADDRESS --tries=NUMBER
--output-document=FILE --no-clobber --continue --progress=TYPE
--timestamping --server-response --spider --timeout=SECONDS
--wait=SECONDS --waitretry=SECONDS --random-wait --proxy=on/off
--quota=NUMBER --limit-rate=RATE --inet --inet6
--no-directories --force-directories --no-host-directories
--directory-prefix=PREFIX --cut-dirs=NUMBER --http-user=USER
--http-passwd=PASS --cache=on/off --html-extension
--ignore-length --header=STRING --proxy-user=USER
--proxy-passwd=PASS --referer=URL --save-headers
--user-agent=AGENT --no-http-keep-alive --cookies=off
--load-cookies=FILE --save-cookies=FILE --dont-remove-listing
--glob=on/off --passive-ftp --retr-symlinks --recursive
--level=NUMBER --delete-after --convert-links
--backup-converted --mirror --page-requisites --accept=LIST
--reject=LIST --domains=LIST --exclude-domains=LIST
--follow-ftp --follow-tags=LIST --ignore-tags=LIST --span-hosts
--relative --include-directories=LIS --exclude-directories=LIS
--no-parent

Nevertheless I respect Samuel and his youthful optimism.

> Regards,
>
> John M. Drake
>
>
>
>
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