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- From: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV ("Roger Fajman")
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Can you make a 7-bit terminal w/ZyXEL talk to a 8-bit
- system?
- Message-ID: <9212230804.AA13514@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:03:54 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- > I have a Zenith-29A terminal that I normally use for a dialup. I have
- > used this setup without incident until I bought my new ZyXEL. There is
- > nothing wrong with the modem, but the Zenith will only generate 7E1.
- > This was fine when I was calling the slow modems, but all of the fast
- > modems at school expect 8N1.
-
- If your terminal really only supports even parity (the E in 7E1), then
- it sounds like you are out of luck. But if it can be set to space
- parity, it should work. Space parity with 7 data bits looks the same
- on the line as 8 data bits with no parity for 7 bit characters.
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