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[Quality Quorum]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Quality Quorum wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ???????? As far as I understand  the document normal response to
> > Rcmd is a sequence of zero of more 'O' packets followed, by OK or 'ENN'.
> 
> One of the specified return codes is:
> 
>     reply OUTPUT 
> 	A command response with the hex encoded output string OUTPUT. 

This one should be outlawed before it is too late, it simply does not
make any sense.

> > and is separate to in intermediate O packet.


> > > IMHO, the only use of Rcmd is to allow user to type some command
> > and see the response, in all other cases query should be defined and
> > used not a command, we have raw queries just for this purpose.
> 
> Sorry you've lost me here.


The question is who is going to issue a command and to interpret a command
response ? 

If it is a user then proper response have to be in user-readable
form ('O' packet). If it is machine, then command query should not be
used (we have raw queries for the purpose).

> 
> 	Andrew
> 

Thanks,

Aleksey