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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: telnet...
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Date: 6 Jul 88 00:37:27 GMT
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I may be flamed at for suggesting this (and perhaps deservedly so), but
I really wish telnet had a "DON'T TELNET-ANYMORE" option.  Most telnet
server/client interactions happen at connection startup, and then they
stay the same until the connection closed.  Unfortunately, since telnet
options can occur anywhere within the data stream, both telnet processes
have to carefully examine every character to see whether it might be an
IAC.  I wish a host could set the connection up the way that it wanted,
and then say "that's it, no more telnet negotiations from me".  (Of course,
this would make the most sense in binary mode, so that you would not have
to worry about end-of-line nonsense either.)

Any comments?
Bill Westfield
cisco Systems.
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