Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!houxm!hjuxa!catnip!ben From: ben@catnip.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: can you recommend an escape sequence? Message-ID: <430@catnip.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 11:00:04 EST Article-I.D.: catnip.430 Posted: Sun Dec 14 11:00:04 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 18:47:41 EST References: <1420@PUCC.BITNET> <2765@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder) Organization: The Broder Residence, Holmdel, NJ 07733 Lines: 30 In article <2765@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) writes: >>IRWIN@PUCC.BITNET (IRWIN@PUCC.BITNET, <1420@PUCC.BITNET>): >> At Princeton we are building a campus-wide network which will support >> a variety of different devices. We are in search of a good >> escape sequence which we can reserve for the use of the internet. >> Users currently type ESCAPE DELETE to get the network, but this sequence >> is used by some software. We are considering Control-X Control-A, and >> would like to hear from others who have faced this situation. What >> sequence did you choose? Does anyone have a favorite piece of software >> or hardware that already makes use of the sequence Control-X Control-A? > >Well, the Kermit protocol uses Control-A as a Start-Of-Packet indicator and >specifies that any character may precede it. I don't think this is right. I thought that the Control-A was the *only* control character Kermit would use. Further, I thought Kermit was designed for use in a hostile environment, i.e., one where characters coming from the serial line were seven bits long, and where control codes such as X-ON, X-OFF and del did nasty things. As for a good escape sequence, I am partial to the one used on our AT&T ISN. / BREAK. I believe that the BREAK has to be typed within a second or so after the /. This escape sequence seems to be transparent to all the software we have tried. -- Ben Broder {ihnp4,decvax} !hjuxa!catnip!ben {houxm,clyde}/