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From: ken@hpubrcf.HP.COM (Ken Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: telnetd and 8-bit characters
Message-ID: <120016@hpubrcf.HP.COM>
Date: 8 May 90 10:16:57 GMT
References: <4429@tukki.jyu.fi>
Organization: HP  UK Response Center
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> Either I'm missing something obvious or there is a bug in telnetd or
> somewhere that refuses to let 8-bit characters through in HP9000
> series 300 HP-UX 7.0.  When I try to type (or transmit in any way,
> including Kermit in 8-bit mode) any character with high bit 1, it gets
> transformed into a null (it doesn't simply zero the high bit).  This
> doesn't happen if I log in from the console, or via rlogin, nor does
> it depend on stty settings: exactly same settings (compared with diff)
> work on the console, but after just "telnet <same machine>" the 8-bit
> characters no longer work.  (The problem does not occur with series 800
> machines.)
> 
> Is there something I could be doing wrong?  Something I could try?


	There is a patch for this problem, if you contact your responce center
	they should be able to provide you with it.


				Ken Green
				--ukcrc--

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