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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
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Subject: Re: UW
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Date: 27 Feb 89 16:52:17 GMT
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In article <41a849b7.f231@fract.engin.umich.edu> beh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Bob Hruska) writes:
>Well, many universities' dial-ins are port selectors that only pass 7 bits,
>which is one bit short of what Dnet needs to work.... That's the problem
>here, anyways.
ahh, an old familiar problem. Sounds like what is needed is a 
little add-on to dnet, telling it to go into 7-bit mode. 
you know, the deal where chars with bit-8 set get the bit cleared
and a prefix (e.g DLE) put in front. Not as bad a penalty as it seems, since
most of the data you send is ascii text with bit 7 clear anyway. 
That ougghta fix your various wagons and Bridges.
I think if you had this, then you would have everything you 
needed.
ron