<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2021, at 5:56 PM, R. Voorhorst <<a href="mailto:R.Voorhorst@swabhawat.com" class="">R.Voorhorst@swabhawat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;" class="">9934 ;*** ALTHOUGH THERE IS NOTHING REALLY IN THE DDCMP SPEC TO PROHIBIT SIMPLY<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;" class="">9935 ;*** STARTING OFF WITH WILD AND WIERD NUMBERS, SOME LESS-THAN-ROBUST SYSTEMS<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;" class="">9936 ;*** TEND TO GET TERRIBLY CONFUSED IF THE FIRST DDCMP NUMBERED MESSAGE ISN'T<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;" class="">9937 ;*** NUMBER "1", SO . . . RESET THE MESSAGE NUMBERS<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>That's a strange comment, because the DDCMP spec is quite explicit about the required iniitial value of the sequence numbers. Of course it is; sequential message delivery can't work if the two sides don't agree on what number to start with.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>