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+This is yet another fork of Jim Brain's tcpser serial to IP modem emulation program.
+The original source code can be found here:
+http://www.jbrain.com/pub/linux/serial/
+
+My changes are based upon the rc12 archive dated 11Mar09.
+
+I fixed the bug with being unable to connect to real telnet servers.
+
+I also made the modem routines automatically detect parity and ignore
+it in AT commands and print out modem responses in matching
+parity. Parity is *not* stripped when sending data over the
+connection, which is how a real modem behaves. This may or may not be
+what you want. Some servers will expect an 8 bit connection and may
+not work.
+
+Chris Osborn <fozztexx@fozztexx.com>
+http://insentricity.com