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From: cbradley@Busl.COM (Chris Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 8 bits no parity
Summary: Do the setting in /etc/remote
Keywords: tip parity set setting
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Date: 9 Dec 90 22:11:11 GMT
References: <613@chiton.ucsd.edu>
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In article <613@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
>When using tip(1) to connect to a modem through /dev/cua, I
>would like to set the serial output format to 8 bits no parity.
>A tour through the manuals finds tty(4) saying:
>"output parity is usually even."  No clues there.


I had this problem too, but discovered that the parity can be set by 
making the correct entries in /etc/remote.

From the man page:
     pa   (str) The type of parity to use when sending data to
          the host.  This may be one of ``even'', ``odd'',
          ``none'', ``zero'' (always set bit 8 to zero), ``one''
          (always set bit 8 to 1).  The default is even parity.


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