US Robotics COURIER HST User'smanual page 120

Throughput
Transmission
Rate
V.22bis
Word Length
XON/XOFF
COURIER HST
transmitted over the phone lines. Received data is output
directly to the screen. The more popular communications
software products control Terminal Mode as well as enable
more complex operations, including file transmission and
saving received files.
The amount of actual user data transmitted per second with-
out the overhead of protocol information such as Start and
Stop bits or frame headers and trailers. Compare characters
per second.
Same as Bit Rate.
The international CCITT standard for modem communi-
cations at 2400 bps. The standard includes an automatic
data rate fallback to 1200 bps and compatibility with Bell
212A/V. 22 modems.
The number of bits in a character without parity, start or
stop bits.
Standard ASCII control characters used to tell an intelligent
device to stop/resume transmitting data. In most systems
typing <Ctrl>-S sends the XOFF character. Some devices,
including the Courier, understand <Ctrl>-Q as XON; others
interpret the pressing of any key after <Ctrl>-S as XON.
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