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February 1999, Week 3

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Re: Cisco Routers
From:
Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 17 Feb 1999 01:57:11 -0500576_us-ascii <whine>
All I'm trying to do is:
1) Open a file
2) Use FFILEINFO to find out what it's POSIX name is
3) Move it out of the way with FRENAME
4) Create a new file with the original name

Things were going smoothly. I HPFOpened the file, did the FFILEINFO call and
got the name into a character array. The rename worked beautifully. I
appended a semi-colon to the POSIX name in the character array (as a
terminating character--see HPFOPEN documentation) and called HPFOPEN. A bunch
of debugging down the road, I discover that [...]41_17Feb199901:57:[log in to unmask]
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:30:51 EST
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Kara asks:

> Do the Cisco routers work for dumb terminals?

No. Dumb terminals don't speak TCP/IP (or anything like it). They're purely
ASCII serial devices using one or several of the standard serial
communications methods (RS-232, RS-422, etc.)

> We are looking for a
>  cost-effective way to remove bridging from our network.

It may not meet your criterion of cost-effective, but the newer DTCs are
capable of understanding TCP/IP (a fully routable protocol) and thus do not
require bridging.

Wirt Atmar

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