From:	jnet%WSUVM1::CANNON  7-FEB-1986 07:37
To:	BELONIS
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Date: 7 February 1986, 07:17:12 PLT
From: CANNON   at WSUVM1
To:   BELONIS at UWAPHAST
 
Thank you for the info on XMODEM.  If I happen to hear of an IBM version
I'll you know.  I agree that the EBCDIC to ASCII conversion should make it
difficult if not impossible for most protocol converters.  The IBM 7171
(which is patterned after the Yale ASCII Terminal System for Series/1)
has a "transparent" mode which can be invoked by the host software.
This mode basically clears a path through the protocol converter and
allows pure ASCII data to be passed through without translation and
without cursor addressing etc. stuffed in.  Both CMS-Kermit and PCTRANS
use this transparency feature for file transfer.  I presume that it
would be possible for someone to write an XMODEM for IBM which would
do the same.  Since the 7171 (and Yale) are the only protocol converters
that I know to have such a feature, it isn't likely that anyone (except
maybe Yale University) will write a version just for them.
 
Since we do also have a VAX Cluster, perhaps you could let me know
how XMODEM is distrubuted for that.  Again, thanks for the information.
 
Lynn Cannon

From:	jnet%WSUVM1::CANNON 11-FEB-1986 08:34
To:	BELONIS
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Date: 11 February 1986, 08:16:37 PLT
From: CANNON   at WSUVM1
To:   BELONIS at UWAPHAST
 
Thank you for your offer to send XMODEM for our VAX cluster.  The current
status of the VAX system is that we have JNET installed and are communicating
with the IBM system, but the node name is not yet included in the BITNET
node tables.  We have just recently sent the node information in so the
node should be in next month's distribution of tables.  I will let you
know when the node is on BITNET.  The node name is WSUVMS1 and the user
is CANNON.
 
If you get real involved in 7171 issues you may be interested in an
interest group (distribution list) for 7171 (and other protocol converter)
topics run by John Voigt (SYSBJAV@TCSVM).  If you send a note to John
he will put you on the distribution list.  However, putting your name on
this list is somewhat akin to turning on a CB radio --- there is lots of
chatter.