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From: zben@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Terminal output: parity, 7 vs. 8 bits, etc.
Message-ID: <6122@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 01:54:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 01:54:20 1984
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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The terminal I am typing this on (a Volker Craig VC4404) has the bogosity
to change bad-parity characters into question marks.  Even in cursor
addressing sequences.  BSD 4.1 is nice enough to generate the parity for me,
although I suppose I could do the STTY -EVENP if what you are suggesting
comes to pass...

Now, you ask, "But why do you have parity set on your terminal at all?".
Our local IBM guru has a stick up his *** about having parity checking,
and if the switch isn't on I can't talk to his funny IBM Series 1,
running Yale code, that makes this terminal look like a 3270.

Needless to say raw mode programs lose big this way...

Ben Cranston      ...seismo!umcp-cs!zben       zben@umd2.ARPA