On Monday, November 21, 2011 01:28:16 PM David Riley did opine: > On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:25 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > And that is 9600 baud 8n1 on both ends. Ascii is normally 7 bit and > > will have a low 8th bit if fed normal ascii data, so how is the 8th > > bit getting set other than purposely setting 7M1 on the other end of > > the cable? > > That's what I thought the OP was doing; it sounds like he's trying to > receive 7M1 in Minicom using 8N1 on the terminal and getting garbled > data because the high bit is set (because the other end is sending > 7M1). I never meant to imply that 8N1 would give garbled data if both > ends were set to it; indeed, that's pretty much standard communications > settings for short cables in low to moderate noise environments. If > anyone else read it that way, that's not what I meant. :-) > > - Dave
I think that getting the other end off 7M1 was what I was saying. Trying to attack the bad data after capture by writing code always seems extremely masochistic to me. The amount of miss-understanding that seems to pervade rs-232 communications is mind boggling at times. The tech itself is so old it is being forgotten! Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
