Kantronics KPC–3 Plus User Manual page 168

See also: Display Listings section
 DWAIT n
default 0
DWAIT defines a delay to be used to avoid collisions with digipeated packets. The value
entered for ―n‖ is the number of 10 ms intervals, after last hearing data on the channel,
for the KPC-3 Plus to wait before it begins its own key-up sequence.
This value should be established and agreed on by all members of a local area network.
The best value will be determined by experimentation but will be a function of the key-
up time (TXDELAY). This feature is made available to help alleviate the drastic
reduction of throughput, which occurs on a channel when digipeated packets suffer
collisions. Digipeated packets are not retried by the digipeater but must be restarted by
the originating station. If all stations specify DWAIT, and the right value is chosen, the
digipeater will capture the frequency every time it has data to send since digipeated
packets are sent without this delay.
Observations have proven that a better algorithm for avoiding collisions between end-
user stations, while still allowing digipeaters the high-priority access they require is
achieved using Persistence and Slottime to determine proper transmit intervals, and
setting DWAIT to 0.
See also: persist, slottime
 ECHO {ON | OFF}
default ON
When ON, characters received from the computer by the TNC are echoed back and
displayed. If you are receiving double print of characters entered at the keyboard, turn
this command OFF. This corresponds to the setting in your terminal program for duplex.
If your program is set for full-duplex set ECHO ON. If your program is set for half-duplex
(some call it echo) then set ECHO in the TNC to OFF. Regardless of the setting of this
command, the TNC will not echo an X-OFF or X-ON character to the terminal when it
receives a STOP or START character. Echo is disabled in Transparent Mode.
See also: bkondel, flow
ESCAPE {ON | OFF}
default OFF
This command specifies the character, which will be sent to the terminal when an
escape character ($1B) is received in a packet. When OFF, $1B is sent. This is useful if
your terminal interprets ESC characters as screen positioning commands (ANSI). When
ON, the escape character is sent as a dollar sign ($).
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