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HI you,

I sincerelly wish you an happy FTAM testing.

Two years ago, I was assigned to do the same kind of testing for the Commision of the European Communities. I made extensive testing of FTAM implementation (Isode RETIX on NCR, BULL, IBM, DEC VMS FTAM, Siemens BS2000 and UNIX, Marben, RETIX on SCO).

my tests were far from sucessfull. some implementation did not worked at all. Other combination showed some interoperability problems.

Upon the combination you mention, I can assess several thing:

	- Isode has a bug in the file ftam2/ftam-put.c.
	It will use 8k FADU on Sun (and BSD derived systems) while the profiles will
	limit FTAM APDU to 7K. I proposed a fix when the current Isode was version 6.0.
	now here is the diff in version 8.0. It consist in deplacing a test in this file.

*** ftam-put.c  Mon Jun 29 12:31:31 1992
--- ftam-put.c~ Tue Jun 16 14:15:47 1992
***************
*** 335,340 ****
--- 335,342 ----
            break;
      }
  
+     if (magic > 6 * 1024)     /* FTAM profile T1 or A/111 limits  to 7K */
+       magic = 6 * 1024;
  #ifdef        BRIDGE
      bsize = BUFSIZ << 2;
      size = magic >= bsize ? magic : bsize;
***************
*** 348,357 ****
  #endif
      size = (1024 <= magic && magic < bsize) ? magic : bsize;
  #endif
- 
-     if (size > 6 * 1024)      /* FTAM profile T1 or A/111 limits  to 7K */
-       size = 6 * 1024;
- 
      if (watch) {
  #ifndef       BRIDGE
        (void) printf ("Selecting FADU size of %d\n", size);
--- 350,355 ----


	- DEC FTAM on vax had some standard violation on the concurrency attributes. I 
	added a variable (concurrency) wich allow you to turn off their use by the 
	initiator. 

By now, I only manage an Isode FTAM site and thus can't propose you any interoperability testing.

I hope to hear from you that FTAM products did progress in the two last years. Two years ago, Isode was one of the bests. Some product are really only interoperable with themselves.

Good luck,


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Olivier Dubois,
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