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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAUDOT => ASCII Conversion
Keywords: BAUDOT, ASCII, ITA-2, conversion
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.015502.17943@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 01:55:02 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department
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Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448

|Does anybody know of a program, either PD or commercial, which will read
|BAUDOT input from a serial port and convert it to ASCII, to output on 
|another serial port?
|
|If not, does anybody know of a board that will do this?  This would be 
|very helpful for allowing me to send data to a commercial ASCII printer,
|instead of an EX$PEN$IVE BAUDOT teletype printer.

Bill,

The Baudot code is very simple, only 5 bits per character with a
shifted set to give a total of 64 symbols. UARTs can be programmed to
accept 5 bit characters though you may in some cases need to make
special hardware arrangements for the low baud rates. A simple
table-driven routine that remembers the shift state will do what you
want. For the Baudot code set, see a ref book like McNamara's
Technical Aspects of Data Comm.