>
> Hello All,
>
> Has anybody got experience with character-based applications running over X.25 ?
>
> I have a problem with setting binary mode on such a connection. Setting binary
> mode with FCONTROL item 34 is part of the keyboard initialization, but we get
 
I assume that you mean FCONTROL(27) because FCONTROL(34) deals with control-X.
 
> a report that this fails on a terminal which is X.25 connected. The intrinsics
> manual says this call is ignored for PAD-connected devices, but that the
> first read will return an error. Does this mean that I should just omit this cal
> l,
> and hope my binary characters (multi-byte escape sequences) will pass to the
> host allright ? I have no way to test this out here, so I hope somebody else
> has solved this problem already...
>
 
Generally, 3000 terminal I/O is eight-bits wide. What binary transfers gets
you is absolutely no line editing with read termination by length only.
 
By binary characters (multi-byte escape sequences), do you mean extended
characters? The extended characters are in the range 161-254, which when you
subtract 128, the high-order bit, are in the range 33-126. Thus, even without
their high-order bit, they don't look like control characters. If the X.25
cloud is eight-bits wide, the characters should come in OK without binary
transfers.
 
If you mean something else, please explain, maybe you don't need binary
transfers.
 
> Any comments will be very welcome.
>
>
> Thanks !
> --
>
> :)
> Chris Breemer
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