3270 devices include a series of display devices, communications controllers, and printers that connect to an IBM mainframe. They support a special type of data stream, which is called the 3270 data stream. This data stream allows applications to include control characters that instruct the receiving device how to format or display the information. The control characters allow the application to use the entire screen, as opposed to a single command line, to display information and to receive input from various areas of the screen (called partitions).
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