Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.comm:1231 comp.sys.mac.programmer:18216 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!news From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox TCP Tool Needed Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 03:17:05 GMT References: <0B030501.QKT1KD@tbomb.ice.com> <1545@howtek.UUCP> <114@pacvax.UUCP> <12765@hoptoad.uucp> <115@pacvax.UUCP> <12811@hoptoad.uucp> Sender: news@visix.com Reply-To: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, Virginia Lines: 27 In article <12811@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes: > Very interesting. How do you deal with TELNET options that control things > that live in the terminal layer of CTB? Or is that proprietary? That's the fun part! :-). The only effective way is to do things like: Local echo Local line editing Control character -> Telnet control translation and suchlike *within* the connection tool. It's gross, but it works, and it's the only way to keep the CTB and modern Telnet servers happy. So far as I know, InterCon's connection tool (which I put together before I left) is the only TCP/Ip connection tool available which handles full telnet option negotiation and local editing. IMHO, The CTB is too oriented towards serial ports and serial-port-like virtual circuits, but it is still possible to make it deal with TCP/IP if you take the "I am the Great And Powerful Oz" approach with it :-). FTP is likewise quite possible, but involves even more internal handwaving than Telnet. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "Life would be tolerable but for its amusements." --Sir George Cornwall Lewis