--- "John Becker, WØJAB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Speaking of, I (and others) sure wish when writing
> RTTY
> software you developers would add or force a CR/LF
> after 70 charters.
>
> I really don't think the glass operators would
> notice or mind.
> And us using paper would notice the most since we
> would not get the "pile up" at the end of a line.
>
> ARRL bulletins are transmitted that way still today.
>
>
It should not be that hard to do. I wrote a rtty
program for an old 8080 processor about 20 years ago
that would do that. After about 65 characters it
would look for a space and would send two carriage
returns, a line feed, and a leters function to be
compatiable with the mechanical machines. If it did
not get a space, it would force the end of line
sequence after 72 charcters.
I mostly use the computer sound card interface for
most digital work, but do have an old mechanical
machine hooked up and it is irriatating to have to
watch it to make sure it gets the cr/lf instead of
just printing a big black block at the end.
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