Telnet negotiation - Not a defect: a feature!

[Chuck Karish]

In article <1990Oct12.171007.14012 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
resnick at cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
|karish at mindcrf.UUCP (Chuck Karish) writes:
|
||UNIX systems maintain information about the terminal type in the
||shell, not in the terminal driver.  Telnet itself doesn't know
||what the terminal type is, and therefore can't do the negotiation.
||[ ... ]
|
|This is just not true. RFC 1091 is Telnet Terminal-Type negotiation,
|which IBM claims that AIX implements. When telnetd comes up, it sends
|an IAC DO TERMINAL-TYPE to the incoming telnet. If the incoming telnet
|answers appropriately, telnetd gets the text string for the terminal
|type from the incoming telnet. [ ... ]

Experiment shows me that Pete is correct.  Thanks; I've now unlearned
something I'd thought I learned seven years ago.

My login scripts on AIX machines still need all sorts of hackery,
though...
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