From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 12:45:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09174 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (sendmail@iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09166 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbj@iglou.com) Received: from lou-ts3-30.iglou.com ([204.255.239.145] helo=localhost) by iglou.com with smtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0yrSoN-0002cK-00; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:44:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:45:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Brooks Jr" X-Sender: dbj@localhost To: "Bond, Jeffery" cc: "'FreeBSD questions'" , "'113726.2410@compuserve.com'" <113726.2410@compuserve.com> Subject: RE: User PPP connection to CompuServe In-Reply-To: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B0570B6@exchange.nectech.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message