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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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