Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!johnj From: johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Telnet terminal problems w/386BSD Date: 7 May 1993 21:26:02 GMT Organization: MCET - Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications Lines: 48 Message-ID: <1sek5a$mfm@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> References: <PHILIP.34.736789260@shark.stmarys.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lobster.sid.mcet.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Philip Howard (Computer Services) (PHILIP@shark.stmarys.ca) wrote: : In article <1sa5rc$9r9@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes: : >From: johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) : >Subject: Telnet terminal problems w/386BSD : >Date: 6 May 1993 04:57:16 GMT : >Hi: : > : > I have 386BSD 0.1 patch level 0.2.1. Telnetting in to the 386BSD : >box can be dicey. : I'm not exeriencing EXACTLY these same problems, but an old TELNET from : Clarkson installed on our Novell system fails to connect at all (no : login prompt) and NCSA telnet connects properly 1/3 of the time. The rest of : the time NCSA echos everything locally in two annoying ways... : login: philip : philip : password: secretword : secretword : % I have also seen this happen using the latest NCSA telnet. Emacs also wiggs out. I just found CUTCP and it doesn't seem to have this problem. However, in talk CUTCP can't backspace - just ^H's show up and the delete key appears to do nothing. Also, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z don't work. ALT-Y, CUTCP's interupt process macro *does* seem to do what Ctrl-C should eb able to do. : --or-- : login: : philip : password: /* no echo, as it should be */ : secretword : % : I've "solved" the problem by using Kermit or by using TELNET from a : different system like VAX/VMS Multinet. On my Mac (I'm "bi" =|-) I found : that NCSA Telnet would lock up when it scrolled quickly through several : screenfuls of text eg; % man -c something. The connection wouldn't drop, but : the session would hang. Again, there were so many variables I just gave up : trying to isolate the problem. : I'm currently at patchlevel 0.2.3, but I haven't checked the Mac problem : since 0.1 : Philip