Johnny, I don't know what that means for simh

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From: Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se>
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 1:37:27 AM
To: Paul Moore <paulmoore...@hotmail.com>; Simh@trailing-edge.com 
<Simh@trailing-edge.com>
Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 - console input with high bit set

You need to have your terminal set to MARK parity.

   Johnny

On 2020-07-24 01:56, Paul Moore wrote:
> I am trying to run an RK11 diagnostic and am stuck.
>
> The diagnostic asks the user how many drives to test and I can get the
> input to work
>
> Looking at the code, it is looking for digits and then cr.
>
> But it is actually looking for  #215, which is 0x8d. Which is CR with
> the high bit set. (It also looks for #377 del with HB set)
>
> So what happens is that it just keeps reprompting
>
> I don’t see how that character ever gets into the system. I did ‘set tti
> 8b’ but it made no difference. I can post the relevant code if needed.
>
>
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