Envoy ACP/XF Application Programming Manual
Asynchronous Balanced Mode (ABM) Protocols
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ABM Application Process Interface
ABM Application Process Interface
The application process controlling an EnvoyACP/XF ADCCP-ABM and HDLC line 
interacts with the data link through: 
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Calls to Guardian file-system procedures
•
Condition codes (CCG, CCE, and CCL) returned by the procedures and numerical 
error codes returned by the FILE_GETINFO_ procedure
•
Application-level data exchanged by way of I-frames
Section 4, System Procedure Call Specifics for EnvoyACP/XF
, summarizes the Guardian 
file-system procedures for EnvoyACP/XF, and Appendix A, File-System Errors
, 
Figure 2-2. Disconnected Versus Offline States
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UA (Address 2) 
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Off-Line 
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