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From: pnoe@dg13.cec.be (Pierre Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: PC/TCP tnvt product with 8bits characters codes ?
Keywords: tnvt PC/TCP 8 bits
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.160435.3617@dg13.cec.be>
Date: 20 Sep 90 16:04:35 GMT
Sender: Pierre Noel
Reply-To: pnoe@dg13.cec.be (Pierre Noel)
Organization: Commission of European Communities - DG 13
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Hi Netland, 

For the time being, I have been requested to test some TCP/IP packages on PC to correctly negociate with our Unix servers.

I found that PC/TCP seems to meet part of our request except that it needs a 
special file to remap keyboard scan codes to output character codes. More, once I've made that file and tested the connection, I found that the tnvt program, inVT220 mode (7 or 8 bit mode), strips the 8th bit of the sent caracter. The contrary is not true : an 8-bit character sent from the application to the Telnet   
screen is well received. 

Am I wrong, Have I made a stupid mistake or is it a well known problem ?
I havn't found documentation on that problem on my pc/tcp books. It is for us 
quite a big problem due to the enormous use of the enhanced caracters in our    european languages (except English...of course).

Thank you for your responses ... 

By the way, If you know other products working on PC and giving coherent 
VT220 or ANSI emulation (No Excelan nor PC/NFS Telnet : I found them non-suita- ble for European emulations).


Thank you for your attention.


					Pierre Noel