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- From: PIRARD@VM1.ULG.AC.BE (Andre' PIRARD)
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- Subject: Re: Help! How to mask the 8th bit using NCSA Telnet to IBM3090.
- Message-ID: <9208210742.aa29304@louie.udel.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 11:40:05 GMT
- References: <ucla-mic!ucla-physics!srivasta@CS.UCLA.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Liege (Belgium), SEGI (Computing Center)
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- On Thu, 11 Jun 1992 02:52:12 GMT Srivastava said:
- >Hi,
- > I recently started using NCSA Telnet program. It works fine
- >connecting to VAXes and SUNS but when I connect to IBM 3090 I get
- >garbage on the screen (8th bit is not masked). I previously used
- >KERMIT which let me specify 7E1 parity but I can't find similar
- >option in CONFIG.TEL file.
- > Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
-
- There is no reason for NCSA Telnet to strip the 8th bit
- (but many to use it, to translate ISO 8859 on the connection to screen PC 850).
- Your 3090 (rather its system, you don't say which) should be fixed.
- There's no reason to add parity check to a reliable protocol ;-)
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