[comp.bugs.4bsd] Problem with Telnet connecting to DEC VMS Systems.

srodawa@egrunix.UUCP (Ronald Srodawa) (03/16/89)

  I am having difficulty opening a telnet session between DEC vms systems
  and BSD 4.3.  Starting with a telnet dest command from BSD, I do
  properly get the USERNAME: prompt from VMS.  I then enter the username,
  but when <cr> is entered, the just-entered username is erased as if a
  kill were given.  This fails in exactly the same way with three
  different VMS systems, one with CMU software, one with Fusion
  TCP/IP software, the third with Wollongong TCP/IP software.
  Any solutions?  Thanks, Ron Srodawa, Oakland University.
  .

jeff@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov (Jeff Burgan) (03/29/89)

In article <93@egrunix.UUCP> srodawa@egrunix.UUCP (Ronald Srodawa) writes:

>
>  I am having difficulty opening a telnet session between DEC vms systems
>  and BSD 4.3.  Starting with a telnet dest command from BSD, I do
>  properly get the USERNAME: prompt from VMS.  I then enter the username,
>  but when <cr> is entered, the just-entered username is erased as if a
>  kill were given.  This fails in exactly the same way with three
>  different VMS systems, one with CMU software, one with Fusion
>  TCP/IP software, the third with Wollongong TCP/IP software.
>  Any solutions?  Thanks, Ron Srodawa, Oakland University.
>  .

If my memory serves me correctly, this turned out to be a problem in the
original telnetd which had to do with CR-LF mappings. I don't remember 
the fix off the top of my head but its part of the official fixes for
4.3BSD that are on ucbarpa.berkeley.edu in pub/4.3/ucb-fixes. 
It should be fix 35.

Hope this helps.

Jeff