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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 1995 09:11:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      william pechter ILEX <pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil>
To:        kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some serious problems with telnet in FreeBSD 2.0.5 R
Message-ID:  <199508111318.GAA19112@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <v01510118ac50ca85423b@[130.234.41.39]> from "Seppo Kallio" at Aug 11, 95 12:10:41 pm

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> 
> I have some serious problems with our terminal emulators in Macintoshes and PC:s
> 
> One problem is Macintosh NCSA Telnet 2.6:
> 
>  - minor problem: on connect it does not prompt "login:" it does
>    write the line "FreeBSD (itu.cc.jyu.fi) (ttyp0)"
>    After extra return user will get the login:
> 
>  - major problem: on vi and emacs Contro-Z works strange:
>    1. it does not move the cursor to the end of screen
>    2. if a give command fg, emacs and vi do not go to the character mode
>       and do not redraw the screen, terminal seems to be on line mode.
>    Thsi same problem with DOS NCSA Telnet
> 
> Problem with FTP Software (DOS) telnet and (Windows) tnvt terminal emulators:
> 
>  - in the preferences I can set Enter = cr+lf  or  Enter = cr
>    cr+lf nor cr works perfect:
>    FreeBSD is interpreting cr+lf as two Enters
>    if I define Enter=cr FreeBSD is outputting characters ^@ (NULL?)
>    to the start of next line
>    and I cannot for example enter "." to the
>    start of line (because FreeBSD is seeing the ^@ in the start of every line)
> 
> It seems that FreeBSD's telnetd is waiting for NewLine character (^J) not
> the Return (^M) character at end of line. Other systems here (Linux, SunOS,
> HPUX) seem to accept both cr+lf and cr.
> 
> Is cr+lf or cr a matter of TERMCAP entry (vt220, vt200)? Or is this problem
> in telnetd code?
> 
> Seppo

The same problem occurs with Novell's Lan Workplace for Dos TNVT220
telnet program.  I've been unable to fix this here as well.
It worked fine with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.

Bill

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