Appendix B: Installing Your Own Communications Software
For EIES, the settings on your communications software must be set as follows:
PARITY: Space. This is the most common setting. If you don’t have this setting, try None.
DATA BITS: 8
STOP BITS: 1
BAUD: 2400 or 1200 Modems with slower speeds may not work
TERMINAL EMULATION: VT100 or whatever your computer supports
XON-XOFF, STOP-START, DC1-DC4: ON. These are all names for a setting that occasionally causes the stream of data traveling from one computer to another to pause, so it doesn’t overload the receiving computer.
XMODEM: OFF An "error-checking protocol" that EIES® uses for file transfer.
PHONE NUMBER: Set your terminal software to dial whichever local EIES® phone number has been given to you. Your group coordinator or account manager will supply this information.