[GreenKeys] Handling CRs
Nick England
navy.radio at gmail.com
Sun Aug 27 11:11:54 EDT 2017
The 32/33 mod to provide automatic LF on CR is here
http://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/50413S-6710.pdf
I am also searching for the M28 mod but I am using my phone's browser,
which is as handy as trying to type with your nose.
Nick
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:12 AM tony.podrasky <tony.podrasky at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
> --
> MicroSoft error messages written in Haiku:
>
> Yesterday it worked.
> Today it is not working.
> Windows is like that.
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