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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: bin/1037 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Dec 96 12:00:01 PST."
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:46:26 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199612072000.MAA08236@freefall.freebsd.org> Garrett wrote:
> The TELNET daemon interprets the unsetting of the EXTPROC bit in the
> termios state (e.g., by `stty -extproc') as a request to disable
> LINEMODE, which is why this causes such applications to work properly.

Just as an anecdote, when we first got NeXTs at Penn State, telnet'ing
to them always gave weird results.  The only way to solve it was to
"stty -extproc" in your .cshrc.  Nobody knew what it did, only that it
made telnet work right.

So, there's at least some precedent for this behavior.

  Bill