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Jay, I think we disagree on a small detail?<BR>
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On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 14:23 -0500, Jay Nugent wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Greetings Skip,</FONT>
>>SNIP<<<FONT COLOR="#000000"> This is like </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">comparing </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Apples</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> and </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oranges</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000">.</FONT>
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Nope - they are both <U><B>requests</B></U> to do the same thing "PLEASE CONNECT ME TO ANOTHER HOST"<BR>
They both employ only AX.25 technology.<BR>
Without the "net" the user paws thru the JHEARD list and then provides the details.<BR>
With the "net" the user paws thru the NODES table and then provides no detail.<BR>
In both cases the result is the same with a new BBS (or "net" tool) at the remote site.<BR>
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It is my opinion (only opinion) that the BBS pair of commands is fully consistent.<BR>
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At worst the above is a "breed of apple" condition.<BR>
If you want an orange, compare "connect" with "telnet"?<BR>
With telnet you again get the same response as connect from the remote host, but the protocol of getting there is different.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> The 'ax25 default' command is not available on my JNOS2.0a version. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Perhaps there was a compile-time option I missed. But a simple 'ax ?' at </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the jnos> prompt did not show this as an available command (on my system).</FONT>
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Yes - not here either.<BR>
However, if it were here the question remains the same.<BR>
I expect the logic in processing the "connect" command might be touchy to resolve the ambiguity between multiple ports plus multiple occurrences of the remote host ID.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT><A HREF="mailto:nos-bbs@lists.tapr.org">>>SNIP<<</A>
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The answer is not here yet - one screen requires "connect host" the other "netrom connect host" for <U>identical</U> conditions.<BR>
Is that apples and oranges?<BR>
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