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From: beh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Bob Hruska)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UW
Message-ID: <41ddabea.5e37@dl5e37.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 89 19:02:00 GMT
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From article <6444@super.ORG>, by rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich):
> 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


Now, if SOMEONE ELSE would do this, THEN I'd have everything I needed :-)


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