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From: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Atari BBS and Download in ASCII format
Message-ID: <681@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-May-86 15:14:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 16 15:14:07 1986
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In article <191@bridge2.UUCP> pvf@bridge2.UUCP (Paul V. Fries) writes:
>> > Anybody know what the garbage character is or why it is there
>> > (incidentally, the character seemed always to be 0x12)?
>> > Paul Fries
>> > Mountain View, CA
>
>A quick check of an ASCII chart reveals that 0x12 is NOT the XON code.
>XON and XOFF are (respectively) 0x11 (^Q) and 0x13 (^S).  The 0x12 code
>has the name DC2 in the ASCII chart.  Regardless, why would the BBS be
>telling me XON in the first place?  It never told me to stop (XOFF).
>Anyway, back to the original question.  Why is the BBS sending the
>0x12?

0x12, or what ever 0x is, the 12 is a decimal equivalent for ACSII FF, of
formfeed. And it seems reasonable that the BBS's do send a form feed just
proir to dumping screens full of data to a remote site. My two cents.

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