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From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: RT's and TCP.  HELP!!! (long-ish :-)
Message-ID: <566@scifi.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 89 13:11:48 GMT
References: <8949@netnews.upenn.edu> <5068@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
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In article <5068@cs.utexas.edu> bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda) writes:
-In article <8949@netnews.upenn.edu>, barron@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Daniel P. Barron) writes:
 (Q&A about named elided.)

-> 2) With TCP/IP v. 2.2 I could do use dotted decimal format, i.e.
->    telnet 128.91.11.1, but not nameserving, i.e. telnet wharton.  Now with
->    this "updated" version, names work and (get this)  numbers don't!  What

-Numbers should work fine.  I suspect other problems are causing your
-hostname resolver to not work properly.

We've reported this bug, unless someone else has beaten us to it.
Call support, and get the fix if there is one, or get them to send you
the fix when they build one.

-> 3) Finally, even when things work and I can telnet to remote hosts, full
->    screen stuff (like editors, etc.) doesn't work.  Is this due to not
->    running X-windows?  I mean, the stuff works, but the keys are all
->    screwed up and don't behave properly even though the thing is supposed 
->    to be emulating a VT100.  Is keyboard remapping the answer?  Can I do
->    that?

-I suspect you are running into problems with telnet eating control chars.
-there are several ways around this - one is to use rlogin, the other
-is to use stty to disable the normal xon/xoff handshaking but I forget
-the exact details of how to do this.

If this is your problem, you can issue stty -ixon before doing your
telnet.  As far as what is transmitted when you press a key, yes,
keyboard remapping may be your answer.  I presume from your
descriptions that your screens are being displayed correctly, but when
you type pfk's and cursor keys that odd things are happening.  

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Nick Simicich --- uunet!bywater!scifi!njs --- njs@ibm.com (Internet)