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From: skunz@iastate.edu (Kunz Steven L)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: tn3270 protocol doc
Summary: Need tn3270 protocol definition document
Keywords: tn3270 document query
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Date: 11 Mar 91 22:39:33 GMT
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Where can I find a document outlining the tn3270 protocol?  I know that 
tn3270 uses the TCP-IP protocol as a transport medium - but what gets
transported?  Raw EBCDIC block-mode streams (as come over an IBM channel)?
What about the "start up" protocol?  It appears many micro tn3270 packages
are in line mode until something in the protocol from the host kicks them
into block mode.

We've already checked for an RFC in the "nic" RFC repository - doesn't seem
to be one.  Does the protocol standard come out of IBM?

Steve Kunz -- Iowa State University Computation Center