SJDMK@UNO.BITNET (01/04/87)
How can I let someone using a Leading Edge call up my Apple and
us talk together?
We tried it but no matter what either of us did everything he typed
stayed on the same line and wrote over what he typed last line.
(no line feeds).
He tried calling me. I tried calling him. He set his parity different
and so did I. I tried Access and AEPro.
What do the settings have to be? Apparently I wasn't lucky enough
to try the correct one.
Thanks,
Steve
Steven J. Dawson
BITnet: SJDMK@UNO.BITNET
9951 East Rockton Circle
New Orleans, LA 70127
(504) 241-2244sierchio@milano.UUCP (01/05/87)
Here's what's happening. Your options as far as hardware are set correctly, from what you've said. But his end is stripping nl (line feeds) and your end isn't inserting them. That's filtering that's going on in the comm program that isn't related to parity, etc. Different programs handle it differently. Yours expects the linefeeds to be transmitted, while his expects yours to insert them after CRs. It is usually an option that can be set with most comm programs. Does that help? -- Michael Sierchio @ MCC Software Technology Program UUCP: ut-sally!im4u!milano!sierchio ARPA: sierchio@mcc.ARPA THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED AREN'T NECESSARILY.
cssu@cdfc.utoronto ("Comp. Sci. Students' Union - Tak Ariga") (01/06/87)
> How can I let someone using a Leading Edge call up my Apple and > us talk together? > > We tried it but no matter what either of us did everything he typed > stayed on the same line and wrote over what he typed last line. > (no line feeds). The problem is that each time the <RETURN> key was hit by both of you, only a Carrige Return <CR> was sent. That told the computer to return the cursor to the left margain, but it didn't tell it to move to a new line... There are several solutions to this problem. One is to make both computers SEND a Line Feed <LF> with each <CR>. Another is to make each computer interpret each incoming <CR> to be an <CR><LF> combination. Ascii Express has a little feature in the Install, that is called "Auto-LF at Half Duplex" or something. That means that when you are at half-duplex (local echo on), I believe that AE sends an <LF> with each <CR>. It think that's right. Also, I believe the "Z" option (Format) should be ON, and that I think converts incoming <CR>s into a <CR><LF> combination. > > He tried calling me. I tried calling him. He set his parity different > and so did I. I tried Access and AEPro. This problem has nothing to do with parity, word size, or stop bits. I hope that I'm right with technicalities about AE Pro. I hope that it works! --Tak Ariga ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: {utzoo, decvax, ihnp4, cbosgd, utcsri, mnetor}!utcs!utcdfc!cssu ARPAnet: cssu%cdfc.toronto.edu@csnet-relay.arpa CSnet: cssu%cdfc.toronto.edu@csnet-relay.csnet University of Toronto -- Toronto, Canada -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
lyourk@ihlpf.UUCP (Loran N. Yourk) (01/06/87)
> We tried it but no matter what either of us did everything he typed > stayed on the same line and wrote over what he typed last line. > (no line feeds). Ascii Express has a feature called chat mode. When you are typing stuff to him enter control Q followed by a k (I think). The program for the PC may have something like it. -- Loran Yourk