Aha! Checksums?

To: linux-connectix@crynwr.com
Subject: Aha! Checksums?
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 96 14:59 EST
From crynwr.com!nelson Wed Jan 3 15: 21:16 1996
In-Reply-To: <m0tXY3y-00000xC@mailgate.1000klub.com>
References: <m0tXY3y-00000xC@mailgate.1000klub.com>

A couple of people have asked about the first six bytes of a scan
line, noticing that they're not a graphical value.  I'll bet that
they're checksums!  How *else* do you know that you've got a valid
frame?

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>    http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson
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