Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?

Richard A. Cini rcini at optonline.net
Sat Aug 27 13:02:47 CDT 2005


That's what I think but I can't find a setting in Tera Term to ignore bit 7.

So I figured I'd do it by brute force -- replacing the OEM font.

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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Peter C. Wallace
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 12:05 PM
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Richard A. Cini wrote:

> My Altair is configured for 8N1 as is the terminal (a Windows PC). For 
> some reason when I LIST a BASIC program I see >127 on some characters 
> (mostly punctuation). Typing in produces the right screen characters.
>
> Maybe there's something else wrong?
>

Maybe BASIC only expected to send 7 bit characters so has garbage in bit
7...




>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of Peter C. Wallace
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 11:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?
>
>
>> What the heck is sending ASCII characters > 127 to your terminal and 
>> why?
>>
>
> Sending 7 bits + parity and receiver expecting 8 bit characters?
>
> Peter Wallace
>

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics



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