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From: fin@UF.MSC.UMN.EDU (Craig Finseth)
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Subject: historical defaults
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Date: 27 Jun 88 14:10:02 GMT
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Your suggestion that local echo is acceptable implies that the local
host knows exactly when and how to echo locally.  As of now, the local
host does not know when and how to locally echo (what about display
editors such as Emacs and vi?).

In the latest IETF meeting (held a couple of weeks ago), there was a
discussion about Telnet EXTENSIONS to handle this type of negotiation
on a dynamic basis (i.e., negotiate which characters are for editing,
how to handle editing, how and when to go in and out of "raw" mode,
etc.)

Craig A. Finseth			fin@uc.msc.umn.edu [CAF13]
Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.	(612) 624-3375