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From: koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Question about telnet RFC
Keywords: telnet
Message-ID: <34885@grapevine.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 89 18:10:46 GMT
References: <662@alias.UUCP>
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In article <662@alias.UUCP> mark@alias.UUCP (Mark Andrews) writes:
>The 1st line says "If the requested mode is already present, do not send an
>acknowledgement", but the last sentence says "an acknowledgement should be
>sent EVEN if the mode is not changed".

I take this to mean, "If you're already in the requested mode, don't send
an acknowledgement.  Otherwise, send an acknowledgement whether you change
to the requested mode or not."  Anyone know any differently?

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