Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 17:57:09 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some serious problems with telnet in FreeBSD 2.0.5 R ... more Message-ID: <199508130827.RAA18320@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v0151011aac50e53c88fc@[130.234.41.39]> from "Seppo Kallio" at Aug 11, 95 04:36:00 pm
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Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying: > > The commercial software is called "PCTCP Software" (not TCP Software): It's actually PC/TCP by FTP Software. > - I cannot understand why Linux does not care if Enter == cr+lf or cr > I can change the setting in a emacs session an it has no effect. > But FreeBSD does not work correctly with cr+lf or with cr This is due to broken telnet option negotiation. Everyone else does the 'old' style, FreeBSD does things a little differently, and some telnet's just can't handle it. Read the telnet/telnetd source for hard details, it's a while since I had to look at it. It's arguable as to who's broken here; FreeBSD for being different, or the telnet implementations for not doing the negotiations right. > The WinQVT/Net software seems to work fine. QVT is very nice; I would expect them to have it right. > More problems in Macintosh NCSA Telnet 2.6 and DOS NCSA Telnet > > - in emacs Control-X Control-C seems to be same as Control-X Control-G. > Control-C alone is acting like Control-G: it beeps. > Control-C is showing C-c on the last line of emacs screen, > but why beep? > ** This is not the problem with "setup keys"! I have dissabled > Interrupt Process! ** Check your termcap entries; use 'cat -vet' to check that things are coming through as anticipated. I suspect that NCSA is broken here. > - in pine Control-Z and after fg it returns > to pine with redrawing the screen as it should. > What is the difference between pine (pico) and emacs+vi? > Why pico is making it correctly but emacs is not? Emacs depends _very_ heavily on your termcap being accurate, as it performs lots of screen optimisations. Pico is much more conservative. I suspect that NCSA are broken here as well - does QVT have the same problem? > - I have no problems with NCSA Telnet if I first login to > some other node (Linux, SunOS) and then make telnet into the > FreeBSD node. Only a direct NCSA Telnet into the FreeBSD node > dees not work. This may be related to the location of the raw/cooked handling. I can't offer any advice here 8( > One more question: Whereis terminfo? Man terminfo is saying > /usr/lib/terminfo but that is not correct. Is there terminfo in FreBSD? Try 'locate terminfo' > Seppo -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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