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From: Christian.Huitema@MIRSA.INRIA.FR (Christian Huitema)
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Subject: Re: P7/P3 1988 X.400 related questions.
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Date: 23 Oct 89 15:48:09 GMT
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The question was: Is the message returned (by a P7 message store) a P2 PDU?

I had the same problem reading the standard. Within P7, the notion of
P2 ``PDU'' seems to disappear, to be replaced by a notion of
``attribute set''. The message is described as a set of attributes, and
the fetch operation yelds the designated subset. One of the
``standard'' attributes, however, is the ``message content'', which
should be an octet string encoding a P2 PDU if the content type says so...