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From: Andrew J Pardoe <ap@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Stop automatic resetting of terminal emulation?
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I read with great interest the followups to my original problem. As the
followups were from three persons who are intimately involved with the
development of Kermit, let me throw back in a lowly enduser's perspective.
The ideal software would be that which allows you to perform your task
without noticing the software itself. Specifically, autonegotiation of
terminal type is a pretty neat trick. Assuming that both the server and
the client are using the same name for the same terminal type it's a
wonderful thing to have the correct terminal type selected without user
intervention. Ignorance, they say, is bliss.
Unfortunately, ignorance is also just plain ignorance. When I noticed the
problem I first had to prove to myself that Kermit was capable of
negotiating the terminal type with the server. I had no idea that sort of
thing was done as my experience with telnet apps leads me to believe they
are simple and stupid (consider the name "dumb terminal", for example.) It
was no shock to learn Kermit could do this great thing as Kermit is much
more than your average telnet app but still, as the lowly enduser, I had
no idea to expect this sort of behavior from any telnet app. (Note,
though, that Kermit has provided the appropriate notification by putting
the correct terminal type on the bottom of my screen. It is the user's
responsibility to notice that the type posted was not the type specified.)
However, I expect that whenever a piece of software offers an unexpected
or extraordinary feature that the software provide a method to turn off
that feature. When I searched through my manuals I was looking for a
command similar to "SET TERMINAL TYPE AUTONEGOTIATION OFF".
Hint.
Thank you three gentlemen, anyway, for the without question the most
valuable software on the market today. It is a pleasure to use.