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On May 2, 2012, at 3:56 PM, aram wrote:

> % cat olive
>
> I receive nothing, whereas by executing

Because IIRC that file is used to speak a protocol.
That is, unless you issue certain requests on that file, o/mero
wont reply.

That's used to synchronize all o/lives so that they all perform
very much like in cooperative editing environments.

The ctls you saw in the comment are the protocol (merop).