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Subject: Re: Atari BBS and Download in ASCII format
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Date: Tue, 13-May-86 18:05:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 13 18:05:33 1986
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> 
> Anybody know what the garbage character is or why it is there
> (incidentally, the character seemed always to be 0x12)?
> 
> Thank you Neil!
> 
> Paul Fries
> Mountain View, CA

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what you are seeing is a handshaking character called XON (ctrl-Q)
it tells terminals that support XON/XOFF protocal to start
processing incoming characters if a previous XOFF has halted it,
otherwise it is ignored
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