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From: mcc@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TELNET incompatibility questions
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Date: 17 Feb 89 03:29:51 GMT
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> ...  TELNET BREAK should both stop the process and abort output.  Either
> that, or you should emulate the multiple types of break by  saying  that
> the first break stops output, and if you do a second break witin 1/2 sec
> of the first, it aborts output, or some hack like that. ...

Charles:

When was the new RFC published that changed the TELNET definition for BRK?
RFC 854 indicates that the TELNET BRK  has  no  meaning  except  to  those
systems that implement support for a BREAK key.   In  those  systems,  its
function is to perform the same function that it would  perform  when  the
BREAK key is pressed at a local terminal.  The RFC explicitly states  that
BRK is not a substitute for IP and/or AO.

Merton