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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
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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.

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