Ivan > IIRC (number 1)
You certainly have remembered correctly - I would wish my students could remember as well and summarise the 3 "X"s as competently! The abbreviation for the class was X.25 and the abbreviation for the topic within the class was PAD. I never actually described the topic as "the X.3 PAD" since that tends to ignore the other two "X"s: the vital X.28 and the optional X.29. However that description is rather common since it highlights the parameters. Another description is actually, and perhaps confusingly, the "3 X PAD". > IIRC (number 2) Suddenly finding that what you key on the keyboard is no longer displayed on the monitor can be a deeply traumatic experience for those brought up on 3270 or 2260! Chris Mason On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:14:05 +0200, Ivan Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Mason wrote: >> I learned all about this topic even before I started playing with UNIX systems >> by having to teach X.25 PAD and the 3708 protocol converter. There's no >> better way to drive the point home than by having students in an X.25 class >> enter set 2:0 . >> >> ><ot> > ><knitpicking> >Err.. > >IIRC, actually, that'd be an X.3 PAD[1]. X.25 describes the packet >interface, X.29 describes how to use X.25 to send control commands from >a DCE to a PAD (using qualified packets), and X.28 defines how to >interact with the PAD from a DTE (entering commands following and escape >command, usually by sending a DLE (^P), but might be different when not >using Prof0). ></knitpicking> > >IIRC, SET 2:0 should turn PAD echo off right (that is not the local >echo, but the echo of characters received from the PAD back to the >terminal). >[1] For ref : PAD stands for Packet Assembler Disassembler and is >designed to allow a start/stop terminal to interact with an X.25 >connected system. > ></ot> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
