From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 8 16:23:34 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA02485 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:23:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA02480 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:23:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA20459; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:23:22 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA19148; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:23:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA17831; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:16:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612082216.XAA17831@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/1037 To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:16:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Frank Durda IV at "Dec 8, 96 02:08:00 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Frank Durda IV wrote: > [3]As Garrett (or was it Bruce?) pointed out, you are free to not use > [3]linemode, either by turning it off at the telnet prompt, or by running > [3]``stty -extproc'' on the server side (which notifies telnetd to go > [3]into character-at-a-time mode). What might be useful (why isn't it > [3]already there?) is a command-line option on the telnet client to turn > [3]off linemode negotiation. > > Then in my opinion, the default settings should be those that provide > compatibility with existing applications and is compatible with > the functionality seen on other UNIX platforms. No, almost nobody would use it then, which defeats the entire idea behind it. The bugs should be fixed however (if possible). > Looks like DEC (and probably others) didn't interpret RFC 1184 the same > way ... They probably haven't implemented it at all? > Anyone tried the test program BSDi, SUNos, Solaris, Linux, SCO? The linemode stuff appears to stem from 4.4BSD, so i would assume that at least BSDi has also a working linemode implementation. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)