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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Telnet protocol, Escape character
Summary: Unless special functions are provided, Telnet *must* byte-stuff
Message-ID: <574@ftp.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 89 21:22:33 GMT
References: <8902200941.aa14870@louie.udel.edu>
Organization: FTP Software Inc., Cambridge, MA
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In article <8902200941.aa14870@louie.udel.edu>, R02RDK@DHHDESY3.BITNET (Raymond Koluvek) writes:
> ......, e.g. could the Telnet client application progarm
> send a  0xff 0xf8  through Telnet have it interperted as erase line,
> or will the Telnet client escape it as  0xff 0xff 0xf8.
> 
Unless there is some special call the application can make to turn it off
when necessary, the Telnet client *must* always insert the 2nd 0xFF.


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