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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: k95 Setting Parity Bit?
Date: 16 Feb 1998 16:25:09 GMT
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In article <6c8b9l$84r$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Ross Irvine <rwi@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
: This should be the easiest thing in the work, but I can't find how to set
: stop-bit information on kermit 95!
:
: The old dos, set stop-bits 1 is no more in K95!
:
The SET STOP-BITS command was added to MS-DOS Kermit because so many
people felt they needed to take some overt action to select 1 stop bit
when instructions from their dialup service provider told them to set
their communications software to "8N1" or somesuch. But it was already
"1"; we have never encountered a case where any other number of stop bits
was needed.
There is presently no way to set stop bits in K95. To our knowledge, the
last device to need any number of stop bits other than 1 was the Teletype
machine, circa 1929, to give its big clunky print head time to turn around
to home position between characters (these were still in use through about
the mid 1970s, and I'm sure some are still in service today, but I don't
think you'd be using K95 to communicate with one) (*).
Do you have any special reason, other than the above, for wanting to set
the number of stop bits? If so, please let us know what it is.
Meanwhile, here is a quick translation guide:
8N1 = "set terminal bytesize 8, set parity none"
7E1 = "set parity even"
- Frank
(*) Some Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDDs) might still use
Teletypes, but K95 could not communicate with them anyway, since they
use 5-bit Baudot code rather than ASCII. Most modern TDDs use ASCII.