"Enter with ASCII 64-byte capital characters and one-byte characters"

Bigsquatch

I'm trying to talk to a Christie LW555 projector via IP and having no luck.

In the manual regarding the telnet password it says:

"Enter with ASCII 64-byte capital characters and one-byte characters"

I can telnet to the projector and control it from a pc and when I enter the password (default) of "0000" it shows on the screen as I type it as "0*0*0*0*".

But the control characters show as normal ascii.

Does ASCII 64-byte capital characters mean Unicode or some other format?

vining

A CHAR is 8 bits or 1 byte
A WIDECHAR used in unicode is 16 bits or 2 bytes.
I have no idea what they mean by a 64 byte capital character.

jweather

Use normal ASCII, aka "one-byte characters." I have no idea what the 64-byte comment means. Best guess is that capital letters start at decimal 64, so maybe they meant "letters with the "64" bit (aka 7th bit) set". Who knows. Lowercase letters have the same bit set, so that doesn't really even make any sense.

The *s you're getting back are from the projector, the 0s are from your local echo which can be turned off in your terminal application.