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From: braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU
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Subject: Re:  TELNET Buffering Woes
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Date: 8 May 89 21:19:30 GMT
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	    The whole idea of the IAC IP and the NVT is that you don't need to know
	    what the interrupt character on the remote side is.  You type the
	    interrupt character that is most natural to use on the client side of
	    the connection, it gets turned into IAC IP, and the server translates
	    the IAC IP into whatever is appropriate on the server side to cause an
	    interrupt.  Hence, if you are on your Unix machine, and you telnet to
	    some machine running foobarOS, you can type ^C and know that you will
	    interrupt the process on the remote side, regardless of what the
	    interrupt character on the remote side is.

	That is a long-obsolete view of TELNET. 

barry,
	
Oh, really?  That comes as a surprise to me, at least.

   Bob Braden