Thanks Dave,

The terminal has no "none" setting for parity, but setting it to "add" 
seems to work fine now. :)

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Dave McGuire wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:44:21 -0500
> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
> To: wysoft@extremecode.org
> Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Zenith terminal & Vax Monitor
> 
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:13 PM, wysoft@extremecode.org wrote:
>> I have a Zenith Z-29 terminal hooked up to a 4000/VLC. No matter which term 
>> type I set the Zenith to, I can't get the monitor to accept most of the 
>> commands I put in. For example, "show dev" or "show ver" would both return 
>> "ILL CMD." To be honest, this is the first time I've used a real serial 
>> terminal. I'm pressing the "line feed" key to enter the command in. 
>> Pressing "return" simply seems to add spaces to the end of the current 
>> line, rather than entering it in the way that I would expect from a PC.
>> 
>> The "?" command does show a list of available commands. As stated before, 
>> all of them return "ILL CMD."
>
>  Check the stop bits and/or parity settings...the correct settings should be 
> 8 data bits, no parity, and one stop bit.
>
>> I can hook the Vax up to my PC to get through the monitor, but I'd like to 
>> be able to use this Zenith terminal for the full retro experience.
>
>  Interesting. ;)  You'll find using a terminal to be MUCH more reliable and 
> predictable than using terminal emulation software on another computer, 
> especially a PeeCee.
>
>          -Dave
>
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> Dave McGuire            "You'll have to be a lot more specific than 'that
> Cape Coral, FL              girl last night.'"    -Ted McFadden
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