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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Parity in NCSA Telnet 2.3
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Date: 6 Jun 90 14:12:21 GMT
References: <21924@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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In article <21924@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, kessler@schof.colorado.edu (Andrew
Kessler) writes:
> I'm having a strange problem with Telnet that under certain circumstances
> I am losing any characters with an odd parity. Does anyone know how to set
> the parity on Telnet? I've checked the manual, and I can't find any reference
> to it. 

Parity is meaningless over a Telnet connection.  There may exist brain-damaged
TCP/IP host implementations that try to do it anyway, but if so, they are
broken.

> What's frustrating connecting with a DecStation using their version of telnet
> on Ultrix everything works fine, so it's definately something to do with the
> mac implementation. 

DEC's telnet may have special code in it which will strip the eighth bit
off of incoming characters.  This would compensate for a brain damaged host,
but would also break under other circumstances (for instance, using an 8-bit
character set such as DMCS or ISO 8859).

--
Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
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"If we don't succeed, then we run the risk of failure."  -- Dan Quayle