steinar@NTA-VAX.ARPA (Steinar Haug RUNIT) (01/19/87)
>>When capturing data from the public data network, the LOG file >>picks up characters that appear as "R>" when the file is typed >>out afterwards. In a dump, these correspond to hex "00523E". >> >>Does anyone know what causes them, and how to get rid of them? >>(Short of writing a filter program to remove them afterwards.) > >You can't get rid of them. The T> and R> are inserted when you >do a $ SET HOST/X29/LOG to indicate transmitted and received >packets by the PSI software. PSIPAD has no concept of CRLFs >like RTPAD does, so it inserts the T> and R> sequences. (Look >for the T> at the top of your example). > >Thus, each packet you send is preceded in the log file by a T> >and each packet received is indicated by R>. You *can* get rid of them! On my system, $ SET HOST/X29/LOG does not give T> and R>. The PAD command SET LOG_FILE <file> *does*, unless told otherwise with the /NOSTAMP qualifier, ie. use SET LOG_FILE /NOSTAMP <file> instead. Steinar Haug haug@nta-vax.arpa