Epson MFJ-1278B manual Transparent Mode

MFJ-1278B MULTI-MODE ADVANCED OPERATION

The following commands set special characters which are active in Converse Mode. Refer to the discussions of these commands for details on the operation of the characters in Converse Mode.

CANLINE	Cancel current line
CANPAC	Cancel current packet
COMMAND	Command Mode entry
DELETE	Character deletion
MFILTER	Characters to be filtered in monitored packets
PASS	Insert following special character
REDISPLA	Re-display current line
SENDPAC	Send current packet
START, STOP	User's flow control characters (sent to MFJ-1278B)
XOFF, XON	MFJ-1278B flow control characters (sent to to terminal)

The following commands enable display features which are active in Converse Mode. Refer to the discussions of these commands for details on the operation of these characters in Converse Mode.

8BITCONV	Retain high-order bit from serial port in converse mode
AUTOLF	Add <LF> after <CR>
BKONDEL	Echo after character deletion
ECHO	Automatic echo of serial input
ESCAPE	<ESCAPE> translation
FLOW	Type-in flow control
LCOK	Lower case translation
NUCR	Null characters after <CR>
NULF	Null characters after <LF>
NULLS	Null count
SCREENLN	Automatic <CR> insertion

Transparent Mode

Packet radio is very well suited to the transfer of data between computers. In some cases Converse Mode will work well for computer data transfer. However, files such as a .CMD file on a CP/M system, a BASIC program, or even a word-processor text file, may contain characters that conflict with special characters in Converse Mode. Some of these files may utilize all eight bits of each byte rather than the seven bits required by ASCII codes. If you transfer such files you will have to use Transparent Mode.

Transparent Mode is a data-transfer mode like Converse Mode. In this mode there are no special characters...everything you type and everything your computer sends to the MFJ-