Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!see1 From: see1@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Ellen Seebacher) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: USENET frowning upon graphics in signatures Message-ID: <1247@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:41:58 EST Article-I.D.: sphinx.1247 Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:41:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:17:11 EST References: <669@vaxine.UUCP>, <1281@mtgzz.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 30 >> It seems that three consecutive '+' signs were interpreted by his modem as >> a control command. > >I can understand problems caused by non-printing characters, but any modem >that can't receive three consecutive '+' signs is (pardon me) a piece of crap! >The problem isn't the graphics--it's the modem! > Evelyn C. Leeper I think the original poster misunderstood. At least one terminal emulator, Red Ryder, interprets +++ as a control sequence. It does NOT happen when in "text-only" modes, such as Unix 'talk.' I suppose it would be conceivable that downloading +++ over a modem would cause the PROGRAM to hang up (though I often have to type it several times before it responds), but a modem that did this ought to have its entrails ripped out. just my two cents at forty-eight hundred baud, one-forty-five am... -- Ellen Keyne Seebacher Univ. of Chicago Comp. Center Dilige et quod vis fac. ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!see1