Re: Telnet negotiation

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Probably that he's running it from the i?

But that doesn't answer the question of why not use the telnet client built
into the i?  :)

Charles


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Shannon ODonnell <
sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have to ask...why would you do such a thing?
>
> What benefits are there to writing your own telnet client rather than using
> one that's already written, tested, in-use in hundreds of thousands of
> workstations/pc's across the world?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Jon S
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> Subject: Telnet negotiation
>
>
> All,
>
> I wrote my own Telnet Client in RPG several years ago and I have been asked
> to change it from character-at-a-time to line-at-a-time mode. I am sure
> this
> is done in the negotation string that I send back to the host. The
> following
> is what I received from my customer:
>
> "There is an understanding known as kludge-line mode, which means that if
> either "suppress go ahead" or "echo" is enabled but not both, then Telnet
> operates in line-at-a-time mode."
> I am not sure how to do this. Currently I am sending back request =
> X'FFFE03+ FFFE01' + CRLF2 but it's been so long ago that I don't even
> remember what that means.
>
> Can anyone help me out?
>
> Thanks, Jon
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