Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!TWG.COM!dcrocker From: dcrocker@TWG.COM (Dave Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Supress-Telnet Option Discussion Message-ID: <8807211650.AA16724@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: 20 Jul 88 23:31:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 7 No doubt, I am missing something quite basic in the discussion about the Suppress-Telnet option. Would someone please describe to me why it would not be better -- and vastly simpler -- simply to have a straight TCP connection to the remote host's pseudo-terminal driver? I.e., bypass the telnet protocol engine entirely. Dave