Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 03:27:49 -0500 From: "Mike Grommet" <mgrommet@insolwwb.net> To: <djv@bedford.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Clear command locks up telnet window? Message-ID: <00ff01bd8949$55b0a5e0$0cf896d0@work1.insolwwb.net>
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Sigh. no dice here... >Mike Grommet wrote: >[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] >> Greets. >> >> we are setting up a down stream isp using freebsd and we've got everything >> talking to each other just peachy. >> >> When I telnet into their server, I log in just fine. >> I can ls, more, any generic unix command... take your pick, but >> once I do a clear command, it locks up the telnet session. I can re-telnet >> back in >> and such >> but this makes life really bad because I cant use pico or vi to edit config >> files there. >> >> >> HELP? >> > >Here's an all-round wild guess: the clear command is making telnet >think it's been escaped. Try using 8-bit clean, no-escape-char >switches on your telnet client, namely: > > telnet -E8 downstream.host > >Maybe just the -L switch will work. > >Dave >-- > Is the true purpose of Unix its use, or its administration? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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