On 2015-02-13 15:36, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com <mailto:clemc at ccc.com>> wrote: I agree, I never saw _/correctly/_ configured systems with anything less than 8 bits. 7 with parity (8 total) as Paul said, was pretty standard. particularly on modems. Early UNIX tty drivers used to assume it and pretty much always AND 0x7F with the input character. Not only that, but some (BSD 2.9?) put out text with 0x80 ORed into the output stream, which messes up modern terminal emulators. It's still there in 2.11BSD, until the last (unofficial) patch set I sent out a few years ago which removed it. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol