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- From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: 'cat'ting 8 bit data to the terminal.....
- Message-ID: <BARNETT.92Aug28164203@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 21:42:03 GMT
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- Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY
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- In-Reply-To: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 27 Aug 92 21:59:58 GMT
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- In article <14333@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- > As I remember, the problem you were having is that the data being sent
- > to the pseudo-tty was coming *from* a serial line, and had the 8th bit
- > set. Perhaps you should set the options on the serial line to strip the
- > data to 7 bits?
-
- Thanks Guy. I'm using telnet to connect to a dial-out modem pool.
- I don't know of any option to telnet to use 7 bits, and the modem
- pool is too dumb. ***** But you gave be an idea! I might be able to telnet
- to a smarter terminal server we have here, change it to ignore parity,
- and then telnet to the modem pool. Thanks!
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- Bruce Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett
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