From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 17 20:59:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA11270 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:59:05 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA11264 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:59:04 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA01956; Fri, 17 Mar 95 21:52:48 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503180452.AA01956@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Batch Telnet (Re: diskless and 3Com 509) To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 21:52:48 MST Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503180159.TAA02509@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Mar 17, 95 07:59:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.