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Subject: Re: Atari BBS and Download in ASCII format
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 17:24:17 EDT
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> > > 
> > > Anybody know what the garbage character is or why it is there
> > > (incidentally, the character seemed always to be 0x12)?
> > > 
> > 
> > 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 ?
> 
yes yes i admit it !!! i read the bloody chart wrong, next time ill
get it tatoo'd on my stomach where i can see it clearly
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