Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:45:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Brooks Jr" <dbj@iglou.com> To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> Cc: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'113726.2410@compuserve.com'" <113726.2410@compuserve.com> Subject: RE: User PPP connection to CompuServe Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701154124.441A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B0570B6@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Bond, Jeffery wrote:
> 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.
It's been a while (We were an X.25 customer of CompuServe's some
years ago), but try typing a plus sign ("+") and a return at the first
prompt to see if that switches to 8-bit no parity.
-- Dave
--
David E. Brooks Jr
dbj@iglou.com
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