[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] NCSA Telnet Setup Keys

roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (08/07/90)

>> Aagh!  It's so annoying!  Following on from my posting last week
>> asking if anyone knew how to stop NCSA Telnet 2.3.2 defaulting to ^C
>> ^S ^Q for interrupt/flow control (which conflicts with Emacs)

	It seems to me that what is needed is some way (possibly an
extension to the Telnet protocol?) for the host end to let the terminal end
know that the tty has been put into raw mode.  I don't see any fundemental
reason why this can't be done.  Comments?
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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (08/21/90)

In article <1990Aug7.015958.19478@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
> 	It seems to me that what is needed is some way (possibly an
> extension to the Telnet protocol?) for the host end to let the terminal end
> know that the tty has been put into raw mode.  I don't see any fundemental
> reason why this can't be done.  Comments?

Linemode basically achieves this.

---Dan