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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: can telnet pass 8 bits?
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Date: 26 Sep 90 00:44:17 GMT
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Empirically, telnet (on SunOS 4.1) clears the 8th bit of characters
that I send it.  This is annoying when running emacs or bash.  Is
there a way to get it to pass all 8 bits?  (None is documented.)
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David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>