From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 13:28:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21586 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:28:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.insolwwb.net (root@ns.insolwwb.net [206.31.149.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21513 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgrommet@insolwwb.net) Received: from work1.insolwwb.net (work2.insolwwb.net [208.150.248.12]) by ns.insolwwb.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03778; Wed, 27 May 1998 15:25:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <00ff01bd8949$55b0a5e0$0cf896d0@work1.insolwwb.net> From: "Mike Grommet" To: Cc: Subject: Re: Clear command locks up telnet window? Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 03:27:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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