Date   : Sun, 03 Feb 1985 23:34:00-PST
From   : William Chops Westfield <BillW@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Need Help on BASICA Comm Support

The problem with bit 8 being set to odd provide odd parity is almost
certainly telenet.  Most communications programs will strip the parity
bit from the characters received individually before putting them on
the screen or checking them against special characters.  It is not
usually practical to do this is basic.  What you normally want for
any kind of terminal is to read 7 data bits, and ignore the parity
bit, but I dont remember offhand whether that is one of the basica
options.  there may also be a telenet pad command to set the parity
and number of databits desired, but I dont know what it would be
offhand.

BillW