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From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: UUCP over X25 on Sun 3
Message-ID: <18471@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 88 20:08:03 GMT
References: <287@tauros.UUCP> <19772@pyramid.pyramid.com> <20060@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <20060@pyramid.pyramid.com>, csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
> [...]
> The 7-bit-printable-ASCII restriction comes from international X.25 gateways,
> many of which insist on swiping the eigth bit for parity or somesuch. A few
> also do funny mappings of control characters, like munging tabs. If I set up a
> raw X.25 virtual circuit between here and West Germany, it will be 7 bits and
> there is nothing I can do about it.

It's difficult to believe CCITT is so stupid to allow this in X.25 VCs.
Maybe I'll have one last look at the red book to verify it.
What happens if one wants to run IP, DECNET, or OSI across such a gateway?
I guess you don't.