[GreenKeys] Handling CRs

[tony.podrasky]

Hi Eric;

No, - I think it is ignorance on their part.

They have NO IDEA of what a Teletype machine is or
how it works - and, apparently neither did the folks
who wrote the software for glass machines.

A LONG TIME ago I ran into someone using glass. I told
him what was happening - and suggested he look into the
manual (HEAVEN FORBID!) or help menu. He said: "No one
else ever complained (so, in other words, must be ME with
the problem and NOT HIM). He abruptly ended the QSO.

When a glass-op would call CQ, I'd watch to see if his
transmission contained CR/LFs. If not, I'd skip over them.

<Old Geezer Mode ON>
That was one of the great things about the early days of RTTY:
You had to LEARN stuff to be able to get on the air - you didn't
open a cardboard box, throw the manuals in the "circular file",
plug everything in - and get on the air - and, like everything
else "what you paid for something is what it is worth".
<Old Geezer Mode OFF>

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC


On 08/26/2017 10:45 PM, WA5CAB--- via GreenKeys wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I assume that the practice started among glass tty users as a
> way to discourage real TTY users.  But attempts to get them to add the
> LF's seem not to have ever worked.
>

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