From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hpda!ld@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.misc Title: How long is a break `character'\? Article-I.D.: hpda.229 Posted: Thu Sep 9 23:40:58 1982 Received: Sun Sep 12 02:58:29 1982 Is there an ANSI standard, or any other standard, that specifies how long a break `character' is supposed to be (200 ms? 250 ms?). Logically, I understand why it should be greater than 200 ms, but I cannot find any documentation that explicitly spells this out (it seems to me that somewhere in my library, which has been neatly filed in the attic, I read a document that stated it had to be greater than 200 ms.) The reason I ask is because some of our data comm people want to specify that a break is two character-times in duration (very short at 9600 baud). This could cause uucp to burp, because it sends break characters to indicate speed changes. If an indial line is 110 baud, and a 9600 baud sender transmits a 2 character break, it will look like a hiccup to the receiver. Before I go to battle with the data comm staff at HP, I would like to have some ammunition. Thanks, Larry Dwyer Hewlett Packard Co. ucbvax!hpda!ld