Epson MFJ-1278B manual Escape ON/OFF, Mode Packet Default OFF Parameters

MFJ-1278B MULTI-MODE	OPERATIONAL COMMANDS
ESCAPE ON/OFF	Mode: Packet	Default: OFF
Parameters:

ON The <ESCAPE> character ($1B) is output as "$" ($24).

OFF The <ESCAPE> character is output as <ESCAPE> ($1B).

This command specifies the character which will be output when an <ESCAPE> character is to be sent to the terminal. The <ESCAPE> translation is disabled in Transparent Mode.

This command is provided because some terminals, and computer programs that emulate such terminals, interpret the <ESCAPE> character as a special command prefix. Such terminals may alter their displays depending on the characters following the <ESCAPE>. If you have such a terminal, you can protect yourself from unexpected text sequences and from other packeteers by setting ESCAPE ON.

See also the MFILTER command, which allows general character stripping (rather than character translation) in monitored packets.

EXActcal ON/OFF Mode: Pactor Default:ON

Parameeters:

ON Enables exact callsign matching with connect packets

OFF Disables exact callsign matching with connect packets.

When the EXActcal command is ON, the MFJ-1278B responds to connect packets that match all the letters in your callsign and no more. When OFF, the looser "buggy" Pactor specification comes into play and your MFJ-1278B responds to any connect packet containing at a minimum the contents of MYCALL. EXACTCAL matching will not always work to filter out improper callsigns when the offending unit is the pacomm Pactor version 1.0 unit because of its use of regular ascii 0x55 ("U") characters to fill and terminate callsigns. MFJ uses ascii 0x0f as specified in Pactor documents, instead of 0x55 to fill, and thus fixes the bug.