[WriteLog] newlines

[Jeff Stai]

hi Wayne - Thanks for the precise answer and insights, it confirms what I
suspected. 73 jeff wk6i

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Wayne, W5XD <w5xd at writelog.com> wrote:

> >/1. When using RTTYrite, does Writelog send a newline (%R) as just CR or/
> >/does it send both CR and LF?/
>
> The %R in an f-key message is translated to baudot CR/LF (character 8
> followed by character 2) when it is
>  sent to MOST TNCs including the COM port on FSK. If you have a COM port
> selected in RttyRite, then you
> are probably getting FSK. I am tentative because, for example, the DXP-38
> and the PK-232 TNCs have their
> own COM port protocol and may or may not translate what WL sends them. And
> I would have to read more
> source code than I am currently inclined to track down exactly what
> happens to %R on those COM-port based
> TNCs.
>
>  >
> >/2. When using MMTTY, does Writelog send a newline (%R) as just CR or
> does/
> >/it send both CR and LF?/
>
> Recall that RttyRite does not directly support MMTTY. The recommended path
> is through xmmt.ocx.
> For xmmt.ocx, the %R in an f-key message is sent as the two baudot CR and
> LF to xmmt.ocx.
> There is, of course, the possibility that MMTTY sees that sequence and
> processes it into something else.
> I have never bothered to try. It gets this opportunity only on AFSK (on
> FSK, WL sends the characters
> directly to the COM port) so you would have to decode the audio to
> determine what it does.
>
> >
> >/3. If in either case, only a CR is sent, is there a way to force an LF
> on/
> >/a newline? /Per above, no forcing should be necessary./Wayne /
>
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