acs@amdahl.UUCP (Tony Sumrall) (09/04/86)
Well, I finally got my hands on DBW's VT100 R2.0 and have been munging it
to allow specification of parity and word size (among other things). I
set even parity and 7-bit words and began chugging--what do I
see?--NOTHING, that's what. Y'wanna know why? Because parity on output
data must be supplied by the user, that's why! In my naivete I just
*assumed* (and we all know what that makes out of u and me) that the
serial driver would supply proper parity. Well, IT DOESN'T--never did
and (apparently) never will (that's just frustration on my part--I'm
*not* using 1.2 Beta anything, just plain ole 1.1). After 4 of my
precious evenings going down the drain and the loss of a perfectly good
holiday weekend (one of the few that I see in a year [I *hate* not
knowing what's going wrong!]) I finally came up with the answer--at 2330
on Monday night!
Did I look in the RKM, you ask? Of *course*...and did it ever say
*anything* about parity, you ask? Of course *not*, except to say that
you set this bit this way and that bit that way. Looked in the autodocs
(I guess that's what they're called--RKM Vol II), too.
Does anyone else think that this is a CROCK?
BTW, I'll be sending my mods to DBW (unless I hear otherwise) once things
are "perfect".
(Aside to Jim M. at C-A: I hope you haven't answered the questions that I
sent you several months ago cause I haven't received 'em--no, I haven't
forgotten.)
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Tony Sumrall ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,sun}!amdahl!acs
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