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From: ron@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: TAC "noise"
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Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 11:54:26 EDT
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Yes, you can send an extra stop bit, and then expect not to receive two
and things will work OK, but you can not reliably deal with 7-bit No parity
(a 9 bit frame) when you are expecing 8 bit,no-parity or 7-bit,parity
(10 bit frames).