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- From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: max baudrate?
- Message-ID: <3231@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:09:15 GMT
- References: <1116@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <la5hqaINNqmb@aludra.usc.edu> <la5lutINN2k5@aludra.usc.edu>
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- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario
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- In article <la5lutINN2k5@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
- > First, when going from reading news (which is ok at 7bit/even parity)
- > to emacs, it goes back to interpreting 8bit/no parity, so I have to change
- > the RS232C setings in order to understand what I am emacsing :)
- > The second thing is that XYZ does not work when run from the
- > download option. It runs XYZ (it shows the starfall stuff, buffer, etc.)
- > but then it just sits there - no reaction at all. I left it there for about
- > five minutes and nothing. Of course when I cancelled XYZ, it cancelled
- > sz on the host so it puts me back at the system prompt.
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- This happens when you try to download and the port is set to 7bit/even parity.
- For xyz to work (or any binary transfer) you have to be in 8bit/no parity.
- Unix sz though usually sets the port to 8bit automatically, so try setting
- the ST to 8bit before the XYZ.
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- ken@isgtec.com [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ] Ken Newman
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