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In article <13143@encore.Encore.COM>, jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) writes...
>>>If I remember correctly, only the non-null
>>>characters in a field are sent to the host in response to a Read
>>>Buffer command.
>>
>>That's correct, except it's READ MODIFIED he is using. READ BUFFER returns
>>everything on the screen, and in a different format.
>>
>>  Eric
> 
>Quibble, quibble. The first responder was STILL correct; READ MODIFIED also
>returns only the non-null characters in the field.

READ MODIFIED does not *also* return only the non-null characters; it returns
only non-null characters *unlike* READ BUFFER, which returns everything,
including nulls, and in a different format.

>[Aside: won't those $#@ 3270s EVER die the death they deserve???]

Don't be ridiculous, they are by far superior to the piece of ASCII junk I am
typing this note from. For one thing, they don't interrupt the host every time
I hit a key. You may have noticed that I am typing this note from a host
different from the one I normally use; I have spent half a day installing a
news reader on a VMS machine just because I simply could not stand having what
I type echoed 5 seconds after the fact on the Unix box I was using before
(response time is better on the VAX because it basically stands idle most of
the time, and has nothing better to do than service my keystrokes).

Oh well, I'm afraid it's just a religious issue. I simply fail to understand
how people can accept, in 1990, to have to wait 5 seconds for what they type
to be echoed because the computer is too slow to take care of their keystrokes.
Yeah, sure, I can buy my own workstation and forget about it, but how many
3270 terminals do you get for the price of a workstation?

  Eric