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Beacon EVERY|AFTER "n" Default: EVERY 0 (00 sec.)
Mode: Packet Host: BE
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EVERY - Send the beacon at regular intervals.
AFTER - Send the beacon after the specified time interval without activity.
"n" - 0 to 250 sets beacon timing in ten-second intervals.
"0" - Zero turns off the beacon (default).
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The BEACON command sets the conditions under which your beacon will be sent.
A beacon frame contains the text that you've typed into the BTEXT message in a
packet addressed to the UNPROTO address. When the keyword EVERY is specified a
beacon packet is sent every "n" times ten seconds. When AFTER is specified, a
beacon is sent after "n" times ten seconds have passed without packet activity.
If you set the BEACON timing less than "90" - a value judged as too short for
busy channels - you'll see the following message at each command prompt:
WARNING: BEACON too often
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BItinv "n" Default: $00
Mode: RTTY Host: BI
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"n" - 0 to $1F, (0 to 31 decimal) specifies a number to be exclusive-ORed
with every received Baudot character. BITINV 0 is plain text.
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Bit inversion is used to prevent listeners from reading some commercial Baudot
transmissions. Usually either 2 or 3 bits of each character are inverted to
give the appearance of an encrypted transmission. Try different settings of
BITINV on a Baudot signal after the baud rate has been determined. If you are
interested encrypted transmissions try experimenting with the 5BIT command.
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BKondel ON|OFF Default: ON
Mode: All Host: BK
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ON - The sequence <BACKSPACE><SPACE><BACKSPACE> is echoed when a character
is deleted from the input line.
OFF - The <BACKSLASH> character <\> is echoed when a character is deleted.
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BKONDEL determines how character deletion is displayed in Command or Converse
mode. When BKONDEL is ON (default) the <BACKSPACE><SPACE><BACKSPACE> sequence
is produced which updates the video display screen erasing the character.
On a printing terminal the <BACKSPACE><SPACE><BACKSPACE> sequence will result in
overtyped text. Set BKONDEL OFF if you have a paper-output display, or if your
terminal does not respond to the <BACKSPACE> character <CTRL-H>. When BKONDEL
is OFF the PK-232 displays a <BACKSLASH> for each character you delete. You can
get a display of the corrected input by typing the REDISPLAY-line character.
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