#Term & CIS
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Does anybody here use Term to log onto compuserve as I can't get it to work. I
do use Autopilot but I'd just like to see if I can get it going.
Yes, Term should work. But AutoPilot is much better <bg>.
First of all: After your modem connected with CIS you have to hit "return" once
or twice to get a prompt.
Maybe you will have to use 7-E-1 instead of 8-N-1 in your Term serial settings
to get readable text. You can change your CIS settings to Latin-1 later and
return to 8-N-1 in Term. You will then find some garbled lines immediately
after modem connect. I think you can still guess what they mean: Host: (type
"CIS" or whatever access you use), UserID: (type yours), password: (type
yours). After that (strange, I admit) login procedure CIS will greet you with
readable text again. Maybe you can set "Strip bit 8" in Term serial to get
clean text from start. I heard that but never tried.
Hope that helps,
Joachim Sondermann-Bieker
on Amiga AutoPilot 1.77 from Cologne, Germany
Mark,
you used to have to set the connecttion parameters to 7-N-1 or, if you also
want to be able to download, leave the connection at 8-N-1 and set the 'Strip
high bit' parameter to 'On'. CI$ used to use/uses only the 7 bit character set
so you'd get garbage when trying to connect with 8bits… Don't know if that
has changed maybe with the advent of Latin-1 though…
Cheers,
// Christian "ELP" Busse
\X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
I use the following serial settings; 8-N-1, strip bit 8 (tick) and full duplex.
Hope that helps.