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Re: Newly revised standards-track RFC

fab@fab.md.interlink.com Thu, 07 April 1994 16:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: Newly revised standards-track RFC
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>
> >    The presence of Telnet commands within a TN3270E data message
> >    (i.e., between the header and the trailing IAC EOR) is not
> >    recommended;...
>
> It might be easier to implement responding to Telnet commands that
> appear in the middle of a 3270 data block as if they occurred before
> the block, rather than after.  If the block is being buffered up until
> it is complete, then the Telnet commands could be processed while the
> block is being received.  I think it should be the receiver's option to
> process them as if they occurred before or after.  We probably should
> also say that it is OK to deny requests in the middle of a block that
> would be accepted between blocks.
>

Roger,
        Have you also reviewed my suggestion to implement the commands
AFTER the EOR is found?  I think this is safer.

Fred

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