Data range used by UUCICO?

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

garyb at abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett) writes:

>Can anyone tell me the range of data values sent by two communicating UUCICO
>processes.  Is it a full 8-bit range (0-255), a full 7-bit range (0-127) or
>a selected range of characters (eg 32-126)?

The g and t protocols use all eight bits. Presumably e and x do so as well,
although you shouldn't really use them ...

>I am most interested in finding out whether it uses the ASCII values for DC1/3.

The default (g) protocol does. This is a problem when running over X.25 
through a PAD, thus was born the f protocol. Essentially it encodes 
non-printable characters into printable ones, and it explicitly wants 
XON/XOFF flow control.

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