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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
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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=-