RE: Telnet negotiation

[Jon S <rvrratjon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the same reason you automate FTP scripts! I am sending hundreds of disconnects to a DSL controller to knock people off essentially simulating keystrokes.
 
It's all in the name of automation and I can't pipe commands into the i telnet client like I can an FTP script into the FTP client.
 
 

> From: sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Telnet negotiation
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 09:43:05 -0600
>
> I have to ask...why would you do such a thing? 
>
> What benefits are there to writing your own telnet client rather than using
> one that's already written, tested, in-use in hundreds of thousands of
> workstations/pc's across the world?
>
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> On Behalf Of Jon S
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 8:55 AM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Telnet negotiation
>
>
> All,
>
> I wrote my own Telnet Client in RPG several years ago and I have been asked
> to change it from character-at-a-time to line-at-a-time mode. I am sure this
> is done in the negotation string that I send back to the host. The following
> is what I received from my customer:
>
> "There is an understanding known as kludge-line mode, which means that if
> either "suppress go ahead" or "echo" is enabled but not both, then Telnet
> operates in line-at-a-time mode."
> I am not sure how to do this. Currently I am sending back request =
> X'FFFE03+ FFFE01' + CRLF2 but it's been so long ago that I don't even
> remember what that means. 
>
> Can anyone help me out?
>
> Thanks, Jon 
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