Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!dsiramd!windy!gpwd!gpwrdcs From: GPWRDCS@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, GPO) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Bit bit no parity vs 7 even Message-ID: <206@gp.govt.nz> Date: 16 Aug 89 14:07:20 GMT References: <4658@brains.UUCP> <12259@grebyn.com> <628@sequoia.UUCP> Organization: Government Printing Office, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 28 In article <628@sequoia.UUCP>, scott@sequoia.UUCP (D. Scott Milton) writes: > 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. Umm 'fraid not. Procomm (like most other comms packages) completely ignores the mode setting. *I* don't have a mode setting in my AUTOEXEC.BAT, and Procomm has no problems. I'm not sure what his/her (Pat for Patrick or Patricia?) problem is, unless he/she is using something else in conjunction with Procomm, or an old version of Procomm that I haven't seen. Note that it sounds like the modem is sending 7e1 into the computer, not the computer misinterpreting the parity. Don Stokes, Systems Programmer / / Domain: don@gp.govt.nz Government Printing Office, /GP/ PSImail: PSI%0530147000028::DON Wellington, New Zealand / / Bang: ...!uunet!vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of doubt make it sound positive and convincing.