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  6. From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
  7. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  8. Subject: Re: Scrambled Characters in Telnet Session
  9. Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 21:45:57 GMT
  10. Organization: Demon Subscriber at Home
  11. Lines: 17
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  13. 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>
  14. Summary: Probably timeout.
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  16. Apparently-To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
  17.  
  18. In article <1995Jun28.073803.54848@cc.usu.edu>,
  19. Joe Doupnik <jrd@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
  20.  
  21. > Your Choice ==> ^[[?63;1;2;4;6;8;9;15;22c
  22. >
  23. >    The ^[[?63 etc text above is exactly as shown, that's a caret
  24. >(aka  ESC [ c) terminal identification request from the host. The remote
  25. >software is mistakenly echoing the response
  26.  
  27. More likely it timed out the response, because it wasn't written with long
  28. delay telnet connections in mind, and defaulted to VT 52.  VT100 would be
  29. a better default these days.  (I've never found terminal type sensing
  30. code very reliable.)
  31.  
  32. -- 
  33. David Woolley, London, England          david@djwhome.demon.co.uk