Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Bit bit no parity vs 7 even Message-ID: <414@wet.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 02:13:08 GMT References: <4658@brains.UUCP> <12259@grebyn.com> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 19 There are several places where things can go amiss. Modems: before the days of "smart modems" this wasn't an issue; 10 bits went in for each character, the same 10 came out out the other side. Borrow another brand from a friend; if it suddenly works right, we know who's to blame. Software: some programs just don't work right; the worst offender in my experience was BITCOM, the second worst was Procomm. In all fairness, this was some time ago, and I can't say which versions had the problems. The least effort fix was to hand the user a copy of kermit. Kermit always sets the serial port to 8-N-1 and does any needed parity hacking in software. There could be a problem on the other end... but if they say it's 8-N-1, I'd tend to believe it. 7-E-1 should have gone away years ago, sigh. -=EPS=-