Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 21:52:48 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Batch Telnet (Re: diskless and 3Com 509) Message-ID: <9503180452.AA01956@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199503180159.TAA02509@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Mar 17, 95 07:59:16 pm
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> > Quit trying to "type ahead"; you aren't guaranteed that the remote > > NNTP has a type ahead buffer anyway. > > Since TCP provides buffering anyway (on the client side, if not on the > server) I can't think of any reason why an implementation would not support > it. It would have to deliberately read and discard data... an interactive > session with a full pty would do that, but a simple TCP/IP server wouldn't. Login. Ftp. The spec doesn't say that input isn't flushed prior to prompting. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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