Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!swift!suite.sw.oz.au!chris From: chris@suite.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Hughes TCP/IP-LAT portservers - telnet problem Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 08:00:17 GMT Sender: news@softway.sw.oz.au (Usenet) Organization: Softway Pty Ltd Lines: 24 I have run into a problem with this type of portserver box which seems like it should have a simple solution (apart from buying some other hardware). The problem is this. We have a serial (laser) printer connected to one of the ports on the Hughes box, and we print to it by connecting to TCP port 700x, which yeilds a TELNET based session connected to port 'x'. It's TELNET that causes the problem by stripping top bits, discarding CR chars and blowing its brains out on <0xFF> bytes. I know I can write code to escape <0xFF>s and to send telnet options to turn all this behaviour off, but there is surely a way to get a raw connection (as in rlogin) to the port. It just aint documented, so far as I can see. Does anyone out there have any wisdom they could contribute on this small problem? Thanks in advance Chris -- Chris Maltby - Softway Pty Ltd (chris@softway.sw.oz.au) PHONE: +61-2-698-2322 UUCP: uunet!softway.sw.oz.au!chris FAX: +61-2-699-9174 INTERNET: chris@softway.sw.oz.au