Subj : Solved issue with SyncTerm after up/download on my BBS
To   : Digital Man
From : AKAcastor
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 06:46 pm

 > I found that my hacky approach to forcing binary mode was in some cases
 > (Netrunner) causing an IAC command loop.  So I cleaned up the tracking of
 > telnet state and now don't send IAC WILL in response to an IAC DO if it
 > didn't cause a state change.

 DM> Yup, that's how Telnet is: they used the same byte 
 DM> value for a request and an acknowledgement. Dumb design.

I fully agree!

 > Other than CR (and sequences starting with the IAC character 0xFF) are
 > there any other characters or sequences that either need to be escaped or
 > can't be passed via ASCII mode telnet?  I'm not sure if I'm still missing 
 > other things.

 DM> That's it.

If both ends properly translate CR to CR/NULL (and back), doesn't that negate the need for binary mode?  (or is both ends properly translating it hoping for too much?)


Chris/akacastor

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