[GreenKeys] Handling CRs

[Nick England]

Here is a RTTY journal article about adding mod kit 152348 for auto CR-LF
http://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/rtty-journal/1963-1972/PDF/VO18NO2.PDF

Thanks to Tom T for pointing my nose in the right direction.
Nick


On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:11 AM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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