RFC106

NETWORK WORKING GROUP NIC 5776 Request for Comments #106 Thomas O'Sullivan

                                                                 RDS
                                                        3 March 1971

                   USER/SERVER SITE PROTOCOL
                   NETWORK HOST QUESTIONNAIRE

    The answer to a number of questions about the characteristics

and operation of Network HOSTS will be useful to implementers of some early versions of TELNET, and/or to the USER/SERVER SITE PROTOCOL Committee in their consideration of a full TELNET PROTOCOL specification.

    Questions of current interest are covered on the attached

questionnaire. The Technical Liaison contact at each HOST site is asked to review these questions and fill in the answers as soon as convenient after receipt.

    One of the members of the committee listed below will contact

each HOST site by telephone in the next few days to record the answers.

Committee members include:

     Bob Long                   SDC

     John Melvin                SRI/ARC

     Ed Meyer                   MIT/MAC

     Tom O'Sullivan             RDS

    Results of the questionnaire will be tabulated and distributed

as an RFC.

                  NETWORK HOST QUESTIONNAIRE*

                    For TELNET Consideration

Installation __________________________ Prepared By _______________

System** _____________________________ Date _____________________

1.) Does system operate on keyboard terminal input on one

   character at a time (e.g. searching for a special
   character other than end of line), or does it accumulate
   a line at a time and operate on the line when a
   special character is entered, e.g. Carriage Return (CR)?

     [ ]  Line at time

     [ ]  Character at time

     [ ]  Both (Explain) __________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

2.) What maximum buffer size does your system provide for

   input of a physical line from a keyboard terminal, and
   for output to a terminal, printer, or screen?

        Input______Char

        Output_____Char

   Remarks: ____________________________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

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* If there is insufficient space on the questionnaire, continue

answers on back of page.

• • Fill out separate questionnaire for each HOST to be directly

interfaced to an IMP.

Network HOST Questionnaire (Continued)

3.) Describe the effect in your system of use of the following

   keying conventions.  Indicate how implemented, i.e. is there
   a hardware interrupt?  Does the terminal respond?  How?
   What is sent into system as data, what is echoed, etc.
   If the key(s) are not available, so indicate (as may be
   the case for Newline for some systems, line feed for 2741's,
   etc.). If available but has no meaning, so indicate.

   Key Strokes        Implementation           System Action

      CR       __________________________   __________________

      LF       __________________________   __________________

      NL       __________________________   __________________

    CR,LF      __________________________   __________________

          Terminal Type =  __________________________

   If appropriate, enter data for other terminal types on the
   back of this page.

4.) What special character or characters are used in your

   system to awaken some process during the entry of data
   from a terminal (e.g. control C for some systems, break on
   others, etc.)?

   Character(s)                 Operation

   ___________    ___________________________________________

   ___________    ___________________________________________

   ___________    ___________________________________________

   ___________    ___________________________________________

Network HOST Questionnaire (Continued)

5.) List the types of keyboard terminals and codes supported

   by your system.

   __________________________________________________________

   __________________________________________________________

   __________________________________________________________

6.) What internal code(s) is used in your system to represent

   character sets?  If not ASCII nor EBCDIC, attach a copy of
   the code.

   __________________________________________________________

   __________________________________________________________

   __________________________________________________________

7.) For each terminal type do you support it in:

   Half Duplex (Pure) _______________________________________

   Half Duplex (with Break or Attention) ____________________

   Half Duplex (Break & Reverse Break) ______________________

   Full Duplex (without echo) _______________________________

   Full Duplex (with echo) __________________________________

8.) For optional echo systems, at initial connect time

  is the terminal assumed to require an echo?

        [ ] Yes

        [ ] No

Network HOST Questionnaire (Continued)

9.) Does your system perform error detection (e.g. parity

  check) on terminal input and, if so, is this a hardware
  or software check?

  _____________________________________________________________

  _____________________________________________________________

  _____________________________________________________________

10.) Does your system support punched paper tape input? If so,

   what sort of end of line sequence is used?

   _____________________________________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

   _____________________________________________________________

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