Some hosts will send an eight-bit character or control sequence to a terminal emulation that is historically seven-bit. When this happens, characters draw incorrectly, screen position goes awry, and in general the display can become unreadable.

TinyTERM for Windows has an option on the Session tab of the settings to Ignore Graphics/Parity Bit. This causes all incoming characters to be read as seven-bit ASCII, fixing the display problems.

TinyTERM ITX has no such setting on Mac or Linux. This option was added to TinyTERM for iPad 1.2.4 and TinyTERM ITX for iPhone 1.0.1.

CR 963

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