At 07:28 AM 9/24/99 +1000, Paul wrote:
>David Williams wrote:
>
>> So this leads me to my second, and finally final question: Why does
>> hyperterminal put a 0D alongside every 0A and why does it forget 00s?
>
>  00 is ASCII NUL, used in text communications as an idle character and
>thus ignored by terminal programs.  0D is Carriage Return and 0A Line
>Feed.  If it sees Line Feed without Carriage Return, it assumes UNIX
>mode and adds the necessary CR automatically.
>
>  For a text mode terminal, you need a routine in your PIC to break
>bytes into halves (Nibbles) and display them as printables (add $30 to
>values below $0A, and $40-9 = $37 to values $0A to $0F).
>
>  Or use a terminal with a binary mode.

You can configure this under "settings" for hyperterminal.

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