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- From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: Boom! You're Dead.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.152802.14101@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Summary: The point is it can be disabled (to make it out-of-band)
- Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Chicago, IL
- References: <1992Jul18.142836.4351@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul19.172104.26200@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1992Jul20.190859.18232@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:28:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.190859.18232@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
- >karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >
- >>Wrong! >127 is DISABLED for the escape character. Thanks for playing.
- >>Go read your modem manual please...... (I have)
- >
- >>Any sensible implementation of in-band signalling has a way to turn it off.
- >
- >True, but on *my* modem, I *can* set the escape character to something
- >in the 128-255 range. Telebit T2500 manual page 5-36:
- >
- >"The S2 register contains the code to be interpreted as the escape
- >character. See registers S12 and S55. If S48=0, setting this register to
- >a value greater than 127 disables the recognition of the escape character
- >by the modem."
- >
- >So if S48=1, and S2=255 my escape character is 255.
-
- And if S48=0 (which is the default) then the escape is disabled.
-
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- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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