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Subject: Re: Proposal: New testing methods for SSDF (1)

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 11:49:10 04/13/98

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On April 13, 1998 at 13:39:07, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>>Tricks are possible even through a standard auto232 device. If programs
>>learned to take care of themselves regarding cooked lines, they should
>>do the same about possible autoplaying tricks.
>
>No, the autoplayer should enforce this.  It shouldn't be allowed to try
>to mess with the autoplayer.
>

The autoplayer is just a part of your program that implements an
interface, the auto232 protocol. It's your own code. There's no such
thing as an autoplayer that plays a game between two programs and is
independent of them.

Much of the debate over this is because this point is misunderstood.

Amir




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