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In article <374@rufus.UUCP> drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:
>The ATTN key is, as was already mentioned, an out-of-band communications key.
>It's the moral equivalent of the "escape" key in many telnet implementations;
>you hit the escape key (often ctl-t) and the telnet client prompts you to
>enter various commands.  When the command completes you're put back into your
>telnet session.
>
>ATTN is used similarly to allow 3270s to exit their host session and talk to
>the network.  This allows users to forcibly log off from hosts (a la ctl-t Q)
>and other such things.
>
>Since ATTN's used to talk to the network (VTAM, the 3x74 et al), not the host,
>I'm not sure how you'd implement it on a telnet server.

The Mitek uses a IAC BREAK (ala out-of-band Telnet command) to do this.

Let's hope IBM's TCP/IP for MVS supports this.... otherwise when we get real
TCP/IP loaded on the 3090s around here, we'll not be happy anymore!

Right now what we have works...

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