Subj : Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.
To   : Deon George
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Jun 22 2020 07:32 pm

  Re: Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.
  By: Deon George to Mark Hofmann on Sat Jun 20 2020 09:54 am

 >   Re: Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.
 >   By: Mark Hofmann to Deon George on Fri Jun 19 2020 08:56 am
 >
 >  MH> Is there any harm to always forcing a binary connection for telnet?
 >  MH> That way it would be covered either way?  Not sure what effect that
 >  MH> would have on regular text.
 >
 > During a telnet session, the server and client exchange information on
 > demand - "Telnet IAC", which you would loose if it was in a permanent binary
 > session.
 >
 > These IAC commands return cursor positions, echo mode, terminal info, etc...

Telnet binary mode has to do with the translation of received CR/LF and CR/NUL pairs to a single carriage-return character (0x0D) and nothing to do with the Telnet IAC character (0xFF) which must always be escaped and parsed correctly, always, binary mode or not.

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