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In article <3v9o7d$crs@news1.mcs.net>,
Phil N. Schuman <pschuman@interserv.com> wrote:
>I wonder if the terminal servers being used by each ISP responds
> to the various UART settings - for a shell connection - 
>
>such as:   8bits-no parity-1 stop, 
> and the other 7bit combos of:
>  7-even-1
>  7-odd-1

We default to 8/N/1, and that can't be changed easily once the connection is
open (to allow that would break 8-bit transparency).  Our terminal server
connections are also known and guaranteed 8-bit clean all the way to the CPU
in question, with full flow control (via IP) so as to permit trouble-free
uploads and downloads via binary protocols.

If you're coming in via SLIP or PPP, the async part of the link ends at the
terminal server, and you are native IP from that point on.  If you're using
terminal mode we emulate a direct line to the Unix machine using a raw-mode 
connection to the server you select at the top level prompt.

Since the connection is an IP one, there is no way to communicate back to 
the terminal server that you want a funny setting (ie: 7-odd-1).  The 
terminal servers *can* do this, and we could probably come up with a 
"cookie" that you could type at the top level prompt to switch if it 
needed before connecting to one of the servers.

This would, of course, break binary downloads if used.

What kind of application would you have for such a requirement?

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