Data range used by UUCICO?
Lyndon Nerenberg
lyndon at cs.athabascau.ca
Sat Apr 6 12:56:55 AEST 1991
det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>Huh? I thought that the f protocol merely assumed an error-free connection
>and said nothing about reducing the number of bit per byte, i.e., it is
>still 8-bit.
Then you thought wrong. f is designed to work through PAD's, which don't
usually have the capability of being fully eight bit transparent. So, the
datga gets translated into a printable ASCII character if it isn't one
already. Read the source ...
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