Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:26:04 +0100 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'113726.2410@compuserve.com'" <113726.2410@compuserve.com> Subject: RE: User PPP connection to CompuServe Message-ID: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B0570B6@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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W.Tintemann wrote: >Under version 2.1.5 I was able ( lucky ? ) to ppp to CompuServe. > >When I tried it today I was not able to login anymore. >I started ppp from an xterm window and then gave the term-command. >at-command resulted in OK. Then I dialed entering atdt1234567 >( only an example ) resulting in CONNECT. Now I hit ENTER and >got unreadable results : instead of normal string "Host Name:" the >result contained some sort of spanish/french/... characters. Also >when I tried to enter the normal host name CIS the C was an A with >the curl-symbol above it ( can't enter it here ). > >When I leave ppp all works okay with the german keyboard. >Same phenomenon when I work from the console. I have seen this when connecting to CIS using hyperterminal under win95. It seems that CIS uses seven data bits with even parity. If your serial port is set to 8 bits, no parity, your terminal will interpret the parity bit that CIS sends as bit 7 of the character, resulting in all those funny extended ASCII characters you are seeing. Hope this helps, Jeff --------------------------------------------------- Jeffery Bond <mailto:jeffbond@compuserve.com> <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeffbond>; --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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