On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:50:00AM -0700, Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
> As I see it, the problem isn't the fact that CANCEL must be issued. 
> Rather, it's the myriad ways that a "normal" shutdown is requested that 
> is the real problem. (Z, C, P, $P, *RETURN, SETRRS, F xxx,SHUTDOWN, 
> etc., etc.)

Oh, I agree that's a problem too. It's just that having to CANCEL something
to shut it down "normally" is worse than the rest of them.

> After all this time, I still can't explain why VTAM responds to the HALT 
> command.

Because TCAM did. Now, as to why they made that choice for TCAM...

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