From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 01:28:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA16760 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 01:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ingate.uk.neceur.com (ingate.uk.neceur.com [193.116.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16747 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 01:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk) Received: from internal-mail.uk.neceur.com by ingate.uk.neceur.com id JAA01763; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:19:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from exchange.nectech.co.uk by internal-mail.uk.neceur.com id JAA12868; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:23:16 +0100 (BST) Received: by exchange.nectech.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id <3BW95RFS>; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:26:06 +0100 Message-ID: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B0570B6@exchange.nectech.co.uk> From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'FreeBSD questions'" Cc: "'113726.2410@compuserve.com'" <113726.2410@compuserve.com> Subject: RE: User PPP connection to CompuServe Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:26:04 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message