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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: VersaTerm 4.5 & TN3270
Keywords: VersaTerm, TN3270
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Date: 14 May 91 20:41:09 GMT
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In article <1991May14.192956.10173@midway.uchicago.edu> xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird) writes:
>In article <1991May14.180623.8339@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>>VersaTerm does not use the Terminal Tools from the Communications
>>Toolbox.
>If VersaTerm is not using the Communications Toolbox, then what are
>the tools that they are enclosing with the package?

Connection Tools.

The Communications Toolbox has three classes of tools; Connection, Terminal,
File Transfer.  The first is concerned with data streams (eg, modem vs telnet
vs ADSP), the second with terminal emulation (eg, vt100 vs 3270 vs tek4110),
and the third with file transfer (eg, Xmodem vs ftp vs kermit).

An application can (like VersaTerm) choose to support Connection Tools, but
do its own terminal emulation, ignoring the Terminal tools.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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