TR>> Well, changing S2 to 255 will still give you an escape code, but
 TR>> it's three whitespaces.  :-)  You'd have to have a right middle
 TR>> finger and thumb (for the Alt key) like a jackhammer to enter it
 TR>> in, but it could legitimately be done within a one second period.
 TR>> The 3 @ signs are a pretty spiffy idea, though.  Might make a
 TR>> PCBoard system go into convulsions, but maybe not.
 DB> AFAIK, any setting of S2 from 128 to 255 disables the escape
 DB> code.  The modem seems to strip the high bit from the incoming
 DB> character before the comparison -- likely stripping a
 DB> potential parity bit.
it makes perfect sense if you look at a connection with 7 databits and even 
parity....
i, too, have been thrown by this as i prefer to use low-ascii characters 
(less then the printable range) for my escape code but some of the software i 
use does not allow these low-bit codes. so then i turned to looking at hi-bit 
codes and ran into the modem's designed limitation.
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