> Excellent information, thank you! An answer like this earlier would > have shut me up right away. This was the "can't be done" or really > "shouldn't be done" answer I needed to stop my dreaming. I really just > didn't get that there was no byte oriented processing here.
That's the problem with mailing lists -- everybody looks smarter than they are from a distance...8-) The point isn't to shut you up, it's to understand what you're trying to accomplish. > As for uses for serial connections and what to use them for, they are > excellent for heart beats, for status and logging daemons, and even > UUCP. Why use such old methods? Because they still work if the network > goes down. Hey, nothing wrong with UUCP! I was the cause of the Apple II port of UUCP..8-) UUCP over TCP does work on 390, BTW. For the other stuff: check out the IUCV support for *MSG. VM has lots of nice ways to handle logging stuff, and that doesn't depend on the network. > Anyway, thanks for the information, and consider my push for this > dropped. The guys in the mainframe group have seen this thread and one > of them has asked me to leave it alone. (And to recognize you, Boyes, > for the mainframe god that you are...) That's wrong. You have as much right to pose problems and discuss them as anyone else. Some of the really useful stuff has come from exactly that kind of proposal. I'd rather you ask. In fact, consider yourself personally invited to do so. The discussion will be occasionally fairly stiff, but that's why it's useful. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
