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| | Speed, Parity, Stop-Bits, and other Nonsense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | To accomplish this trick, asynch data requires one extra bit's worth of time to announce the beginning of a new byte (the "start" bit) and one extra bit's worth of time at the end (the "stop" bit). |
 | | However, the start and stop bits will still be generated on the wire that connects a COM port to an external modem (the RS-232 interface). |
 | | So in current use, the correct setting for the COM port is always 8-bit characters, no parity, 1 stop bit, hardware pacing (more about that later) and some speed faster that the native transmission speed of the modem. |
| www.yale.edu /pclt/COMISDN/STRTSTOP.HTM (613 words) |
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