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Subject: Re: Getty
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From: cor@hacktic.nl (Cor)
Date: 30 Jul 93 03:19:39 GMT
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adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:

>loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) writes:

>>And getty ALWAYS prints the welcome message
>>and login: with some form of parity.

>I also noticed this, it is a royal pain. I've not noticed it anywhere else
>than on the serial ports, but I suppose parity doesn't mean anything elsewhere.

We made our system just ignore any parity. Its always 8n1, no matter
what. So its impossible to go to 7 bits or whatever. I was getting sick
of the stupid parity and 7/8 bit problems. 
cor

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