[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do you bet the server software was written by someone > who thought ASCII STX meant literally the characters "STX"?
Wouldn't explain the "ENX" instead of "ETX". > I've seen stupider things. I give it 25% probability of being what you said, and 75% probability that they didn't want to send any characters that couldn't be printed in plaintext. I've seen literally dozens of this kind of roll-your-own serial protocol in the past few years, and they're all indicative that no two are alike. Ever read the ARINC 429 documents? They'll curl your toes. --Blair "It's protocols all the way down." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list