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From: haas@wasatch.UUCP (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: RFC's for telnet terminal speed and flow control
Message-ID: <847@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 01:05:13 GMT
References: <Dec.15.15.03.23.1988.1873@geneva.rutgers.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <Dec.15.15.03.23.1988.1873@geneva.rutgers.edu>, hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
> Note that two new RFC's have just appeared, for telnet options...
> ...the proposed line mode telnet option will also have provisions for
> handling flow control... it would be nice to believe that character mode
> would simply die upon issuance of the line mode RFC.

The X.25/X.28/X.29 impementation that I wrote for the DEC-20 had a line
mode that was intelligent enough to work fine for commands, but switching
to character mode was unavoidable when you wanted to use a screen editor.
The reasons seem pretty fundamental, so I'd be curious to know how you
plan to handle that situation.

Cheers  -- Walt Haas     haas@cs.utah.edu    ...!utah-cs!haas