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From: scott@sequoia.UUCP (D. Scott Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Bit bit no parity vs 7 even
Summary: DOS MODE statement
Message-ID: <628@sequoia.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 17:41:43 GMT
References: <4658@brains.UUCP> <12259@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: scott@sequoia.UUCP ()
Organization: Execucom Systems Corp., Austin, Texas
Lines: 11

In article <12259@grebyn.com> pat@grebyn.UUCP (Pat Bahn) writes:
>Hi
>   THe system I dial up haswired modems for 8 bit no parity but
>My PC gives me junk unless I use 7 Even.  I use procomm on a
>compaq 386 with a hayes modem.  WHy do I get this behavior.

	Check your AUTOEXEC.BAT file for the presence of the
DOS MODE statement. I strongly suspect you do not have one, as
the defaults are 7 data bits and even parity. If you include the
statement 'MODE COM1:9600,n,8' in your AUTOEXEC.CMD file, I think
that you will find that things will work properly.