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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: telnetd
To: ob@miriam.ihk.de (Oliver Breuninger)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:08:08 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601231452.PAA08091@miriam.ihk.de> from "Oliver Breuninger" at Jan 23, 96 03:52:09 pm
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> Dear Sirs,
> 
> we use FreeBSD 2.0 on a pair of PC's, and have a problem while telnetting
> with Novell's LAN WorkPlace 4.1 & 5.0.
> 
> Equal which LWP configuration we use, keying Enter will get to Enter's or
> we get ^@ on the screen.
> 
> We think the problem is in LWP, but we hope we can on our BSD-Machines
> change the configuration to resolve this.

This generally results from a failure to correctly negotiate binary mode;
the LWP, rather than sending 'cr' instead of 'cr/lf' in binary mode,
replaces the 'lf' with 'NULL', resulting in 'cr/NULL'.

Most likely it is changable via a configuration option in LWP's telnet
program (it used to be).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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