Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!scott 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.