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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF 8-bit clean state)
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 03:54:56 GMT
Message-ID: <C8HpJK.71H@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
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In article <1valpq$i3i@sax.sax.de> joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
> regarding the new termios interface. Btw., does you American folks
> *really* need 7-bit mode? Even the simplest uucp connection requires
> an 8-bit clean interface...

Not as a default, no. We do need it to be possible, for talking to older
devices that actually require 7 bits with parity for technical or political
reasons.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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