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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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