From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 00:33:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA21968 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:33:45 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA21960 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:33:40 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id AAA00693; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:32:19 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA25622; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:34:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199509260734.AAA25622@corbin.Root.COM> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) cc: Henning Wickhorst , mark@lindhard.demon.co.uk (Mark Bowyer), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet and FreeBSD 2.0.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 95 09:26:20 +0300." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:34:42 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> I'm trying to use NCSA Telnet 2.3.08 to login into a machine running FreeBSD >>> 2.0.5-950622-SNAP. >>I have the same problem here, using an older SNAP. >> >>I think the reason is a bug in NCSA telnet. The file 'bugs.txt', >>whitch is shipped with NCSA telnet, says that the linemode negotiation >>is buggy. > >It is fynny that only FreeBSD and NetBSD find this bug. Not Sun Solaris, >HP/UX nor Linux. > >>Are you sure that it runs well with Linux ? > >These NCSA Telnet and PCTCP Software terminal emulator problems appear ONLY >in FreeBSD and NetBSD!!!! I have here micros using NCSA Telnet and PCTCP >Software emulators and our HP, Sun and Linux hosts have no problems with >those hosts - only FreeBSD 2.0-2.0.5R and NetBSD 0.9-1.0 have problems!!! This should be no surprise since those systems don't negotiate or support telnet line mode. Only systems using more recent versions of telnet (NetBSD & FreeBSD) have this support. -DG