On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 01:05:06 -0600, Alan Altmark wrote: >On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:52:17 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >>You may be able to get information from vendors who have reversed >>engineered it, but the only IBM documentation on IND$FILE was a skimpy >>manual that contained absolutely no useful information. If you have an old >>3270PC lying around, maybe it's documented there. > >IIRC, there was little/no documentation since it required an emulator have >support, and therefor the things you can do with it are at the whim of your >emulator. > >So, knowing the various options on IND$FILE wouldn't help you if your >emulator couldn't be persuaded to use them. > Wouldn't availability of the documentation have made it easier for the developers of those emulators to have "persuaded" their products to support those "things you can do with it"?
Don't you find it peculiarly ironic, Alan, that the vendor chose to regard the specifications of a data interchange protocol as business confidential? Do you believe that by so circling the wagons around its products IBM is realizing greater revenue, or merely irritating the customers? Does IBM (or any business partner who might have access to those specs on an NDA basis) even market an IND$FILE client nowadays? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
