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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.194.12.17!news2.ixa.net!news.olympus.net!jwbaxter.olympus.net!user From: jwbaxter@olympus.net (John W. Baxter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Weird NCSA Telnet vs BSDI/Linux bug Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:04:04 -0800 Organization: Internet for the Olympic Peninsula Lines: 27 Message-ID: <jwbaxter-2812962004040001@jwbaxter.olympus.net> References: <59pgc9$p5u@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jwbaxter.olympus.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mac.comm:182163 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5492 comp.os.linux.networking:63142 In article <59pgc9$p5u@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, dshaw@cs.jhu.edu (David Shaw) wrote: >Okay folks - here's a weird one: > >Using NCSA telnet 2.7b4 on a Mac, trying to telnet to any BSDI or Linux >machine, if you type a control-c you can reliably crash the Mac. Total >lockup, nothing to do but reboot. > >This only happens with BSDI or Linux machines. It won't happen with Irix, >SunOS, or Solaris. > >I think I can safely assume the bug is on the Mac end of things... any >suggestions on what to do? I'm connected to a BSDI Unix machine all day (230 hours in December through the 27th, MOST of that time with one or more NCSA Telnet sessions going--sometimes just mail, news, etc), using 2.7b4. With no such problems. I do remap the default meaning of control-C (in NCSA Telnet's code, interrupt, set in the 'Sessions' preferences) to something out of the way (control-]). That seemed essential, since control-C is rather important to pass through uninterpreted. --John -- The primary cause of problems is solutions. John W. Baxter Port Ludlow, WA, USA jwbaxter@olympus.net