Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:34:42 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: Henning Wickhorst <hw@thor.shn.com>, mark@lindhard.demon.co.uk (Mark Bowyer), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet and FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199509260734.AAA25622@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 95 09:26:20 %2B0300." <v0153050cac8d49427932@[130.234.41.39]>
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>>> 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
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