Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:16:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1037 Message-ID: <199612082216.XAA17831@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <m0vWpWe-000u3VC@nemesis.lonestar.org> from Frank Durda IV at "Dec 8, 96 02:08:00 pm"
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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. ;-)
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