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From: [e-mail] (Kees Hendrikse)
Subject: Re: New defaults for new Kermit releases
Date: 6 Mar 2001 21:05:24 GMT
Organization: Echelon bv Consultancy & Software Development
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:20:01, [e-mail] (Frank da Cruz)
wrote:

> So perhaps the best course is to (a) change GENERIC-HIGH-SPEED not to send
> AT&F at all and simply assume the modem is configured appropriately (as
> most are), and (b) make GENERIC-HIGH-SPEED the default modem type, rather
> than NONE.

Sounds good to me. This works for people that configure their modems and
it
works for most people that don't. The latter will be used to have to
type
in their modem brand anyway, so this isn't going to break much.

> While I have your attention, I should mention that I'm also planning to
> change the default TERMINAL BYTESIZE from 7 to 8.  It has been 7 forever,
> based on the 1980s-era assumption that the host is likely to be using
> parity, but this is now almost vanishingly unlikely.  Does anybody
> disagree?

Nope. Can't remember the last time I saw a device that needed 7+parity.


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