Subj : Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Deon George
Date : Tue Jun 23 2020 01:13 pm

  Re: Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.
  By: Rob Swindell to Deon George on Mon Jun 22 2020 07:32 pm

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

But isnt in telnet binary mode, 0xFF needs to be received twice consectively before the other end should interpret what should follow?

I must admit I havent read the finer details of how things are parsed when in it goes in this mode - but I assumed this mode assisted binary file transfers that are likely to have those special control chars that would normally be intepreted as IAC commands.

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