--- jhaynesatalumni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The number of developers of soundcard RTTY software > is pretty > small, so I think it's reasonable to ask them to > make software > interoperable with a mechanical TTY. K6STI was > concerned > about this with his RITTY program and worked out > end-of-line > processing that is satisfactory. W1HKJ has just > done the > same for gmfsk. If MMTTY and MixW and TrueTTY and > MultiPSK > and maybe a few others will come along it will make > the world > safe for historical purists. > Around 20 years ago when most were using the mechanical printers I put together a "glass" teletype. Wrote the program and had it set to look for the first space after about 65 characters and then send an end of line sequence. This help keep from breaking up words at the end of the line. If it did not get a space then it would send the EOL after 72 characters. I also had a way to defeat this so I could eidt the pix that were being sent at those times. Not difficult to program on an 8080 processor. The 'glass' teletype screen would automatically do a cr/lf when it got to the end of a line on the screen. It does seem the writers of the programs would do something similar to this for the old machine users. If using a mechanical teleprinter you are almost forced to do an EOL sequence while sending. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/
