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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
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Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:41:58 1985
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>> 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