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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Want 8-bit/256 character clean TELNET session -- is it possible?
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.091019.23563@erbe.se>
Date: 21 Jan 91 09:10:19 GMT
References: <89689@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <89746@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden
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In article <89746@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes:

>  Even if you enable TELNET BINARY mode and set tesc to UNDEFINED (which
>I only presume will work, not having had a chance to test it), the client
>(in the Annex) is forced to constantly scan for IAC (the TELNET command
>escape) in both the inbound and outbout data streams.  I suppose that
>this isn't much load on the Annex, but it sure would be nice just to be
>able to say ``open host port'' from the Annex CLI (Command Line
>Interface) and have the Annex open a TCP connection to the indicated host
>and port and then step out of the way.

The "-r" flag to the Annex telnet command will open a raw TCP connection
without the telnet protocol.

Usage:

telnet -r host port

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