UNILINK HOST
ADAPTERA–1
USER MANUAL

APPENDIX A

USING THE NON-INTELLIGENTTERMINAL PROTOCOL
A.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NON–INTELLIGENT TERMINAL
PROTOCOL
The Non-Intelligent Terminal Protocol (NITP) is a simple, character-oriented
method of data link communications using standard 7-bit ASCII codes. Both
command and response messages consist of starting and ending delimiters, a
character count or message length field, the body of the message, and an
error-checking
code field as illustrated in Figure A–1.
:Character
Count Message
Body ECC ;
Figure A–1 NITP Message Structure
A.1.1 NITP
Character Set
NITP uses the subset of standard ASCII codes, shown in Table A–1, to
communicate
with a wide variety of host devices, from ASCII
terminals to more
intelligent
machines.