Re: Using PETSCII as a base for other SCII?
By: deon to Nelgin on Thu Feb 16 2023 21:13:55

Not sure I follow? If you connect to my bbs on port 516, it'll talk to you in viewdata, so without a viewdata terminal it wont mean much.

Do, using something like Commstar, you'd need to set it to 7E1 then?
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Re: Using PETSCII as a base for other SCII?
By: Nelgin to deon on Mon Feb 20 2023 11:16 pm

Dont know what Commstar is.

Do, using something like Commstar, you'd need to set it to 7E1 then?

I would imagine 8N1 - because I'm sending 7bit chars clean (and by definition telnet would be 8bit).

7E1 is a serial link layer protocol, so if if the other end of the serial link is receving 8bit and converting to 7bit, then using 7E1 might still be right...



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Re: Using PETSCII as a base for other SCII?
By: deon to Nelgin on Tue Feb 21 2023 19:02:12

7E1 is a serial link layer protocol, so if if the other end of the serial link is receving 8bit and converting to 7bit, then using 7E1 might still be right...

Excactly. 8N1 makes things a little easier. Throw a modem on it and try and connect with Commstart with Prestel mode and you're going to find some unexpected results.
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