Abstract:
A line adapter interposed between a terminal generating formatted digital messages and a transmission line, the message format containing control characters for activating some but not all of a plurality of commonly communicating terminals. The adapter includes means for continuously detecting control characters used by its corresponding terminal when in the receive mode, and means for selectively altering chance data resembling control characters into noncontrol characters when in a transmit mode. Consequently, remote receiving terminals normally responsive to the control character code through their associated adapter fail to recognize the control character and remain off line.