John Becker wrote: > At 11:37 PM 3/18/06, you wrote: > > >>Rather than expect everyone else to compensate for your equipment's >>limitations, why don't you design and build a circuit that counts >>incoming characters and inserts a CR/LF after receiving 72. Doing >>this with something programmable like a Basic Stamp would be a no- >>brainer, but implementing it with relay logic would nicely >>complement to your 28s. Some big old stepping relays would be >>perfect! >> > Dave may I point out that once upon a time before Al Gore > invented the internet and there was computers there was > RTTY machines. And while using these machines if one did > not hit the CR/LF at the end of a line (72 charters) the person > on the receiving end would get a hole pounded in the paper > these machines used. > > That is what we call a "standard". A RTTY line is 72 charters long. > Has been that way for the 35 years that I have been on RTTY. > > Now I can not add word wrap me my machines and since there > is still a hell of a lot of these machines still in use why not add > the CR/LF to the software? > > Pease for once *DO NOT* spin, twist, or turn 180 out what I have > said. You are very good at that.
This seems to be a common theme among certain software companies, also: - Adopt a standard - Change its use - Make the world think it's your standard - Tell everyone they need to use your version of the standard if they are going to be 'compatible'. Computer terminals and soundcard modems did RTTY, initially since it provided compatibility with an existing installed base of users. To tell the existing base of users to update their equipment because those who emulated it with software did it incompletely is a rather odd way do things. 73, - ps Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
