d.jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) (05/06/89)
I have a small problem with Excelan's telnet for the NCR Tower. It only occurs when I telnet to a DG machine running AOS/VS. NCR to Sun's and Vax's works fine, and so does Vax and Mac to DG. When I do a 'cat', 'ls' or anything else that outputs more than a couple of lines, output seems to be suspended every 1/2 page, just as if I had been using 'more' or 'pg'. Pressing SPACE, NL, CR or any other key, gives me the next 1/2 page. The characters are not used by the DG host, istead they are put in the normal input buffer and are used as part of the next command. Local telnet-status says: ....... Do suppress go aheads (GAs). Remote echo. Ascii mode Changing 'Do suppress...' to 'Do not suppress...' don't help (whatever those GAs are). Any ideas?
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (05/07/89)
In article <27@harald.UUCP> d.jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes: >I have a small problem with Excelan's telnet for the NCR Tower. >It only occurs when I telnet to a DG machine running AOS/VS. > ... >When I do a 'cat', 'ls' or anything else that outputs more than a couple >of lines, output seems to be suspended every 1/2 page, just as if I had >been using 'more' or 'pg'... Almost certainly this has nothing to do with Telnet, but is a feature of the DG host. Such built-in terminal paging is not uncommon; a number of people (myself included) have implemented it on various Unix systems, on the theory that potentially-valuable output should not run off the screen without permission. (Please note: tcp-ip doesn't seem the right place to debate the correctness of this theory.) -- Mars in 1980s: USSR, 2 tries, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 2 failures; USA, 0 tries. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu