SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK.UUCP (09/01/87)
Can anybody send me ASCII character generation matrices, size 7x5 or 10x8,
please? I don't really want to re-invent the wheel.
Incidentally, thanks to everyone who responded to my "bizarre problem".
It turned out that the comms. box had a data-link escape character in
nonvolatile RAM, by default set to control/P. On the two 'defective' ports,
it had mutated to null - only one bit different. It turns out that DCL
inserts a null in front of its prompt - nothing else seems to. The comms box
was supposed to ignore DLE unless connected to an interactive terminal, but
had a minor firmware bug and blackholed everything up to the next output <CR>.
Nigel Arnot (Dept. Physics, Kings college, Univ. of London; U.K)
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