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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GETTY replacement for SCO Xenix
Message-ID: <10581@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 26 Apr 88 16:24:43 GMT
References: <460@remsit.UUCP> <31@stanton.TCC.COM> <985@ddsw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: getty sco xenix ifucnrdths


  The problem is that you need two characters to correctly handle the
full range of possible cases, one which would have the parity bit on if
even parity, the next which would have the parity bit on if odd parity.
This allows determinition of 7/8 bits, and odd, even, off, or mark
parity. The old GE timesharing used a two character sequence, and the
sequence was HELLO as I recall.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me