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From: chapman@sfucmpt.uucp (John Chapman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Atari BBS and Download in ASCII format
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 14:04:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 14:04:42 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
> 
> *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
> 
> 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
> --

ummmmm, isn't XON (ctrl/q, DC1) 0x11 ? and XOFF (ctrl/s, DC3) 0x13 ?

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