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From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Scrambled Characters in Telnet Session
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 21:45:57 GMT
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References: <3sd3j2$2fr1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <1995Jun22.212304.54526@cc.usu.edu> <1995Jun26.173752.6036@tron.bwi.wec.com> <1995Jun28.073803.54848@cc.usu.edu>
Summary: Probably timeout.
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In article <1995Jun28.073803.54848@cc.usu.edu>,
Joe Doupnik <jrd@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
> Your Choice ==> ^[[?63;1;2;4;6;8;9;15;22c
>
> The ^[[?63 etc text above is exactly as shown, that's a caret
>(aka ESC [ c) terminal identification request from the host. The remote
>software is mistakenly echoing the response
More likely it timed out the response, because it wasn't written with long
delay telnet connections in mind, and defaulted to VT 52. VT100 would be
a better default these days. (I've never found terminal type sensing
code very reliable.)
--
David Woolley, London, England david@djwhome.demon.co.uk