On 9/9/97 10:25 AM, Cris Jacobin (jacobin@NETREACH.NET) stated:
> Well I played around with this a bit today and found it only occurs
>with a telnet client for the Mac, NCSA telnet. Couldn't reproduce the
>problem
>with unix telnet or another Mac client I tried.
>
> Apparantly what a few others mentioned seems to be true. When you
>first connect NCSA telnet sends out some undisplayable char in some sort
>of handshake attempt.
>
> I'll look through the preferences later today, see what I find.
This is a bug in NCSA Telnet, in which it sends garbled strings when
connecting to any port other than 23. If you have a Mac, get Better
Telnet, since NCSA stopped support Telnet long ago. Better Telnet is
based on NCSA Telnet but is much more up to date.
- Chris Jacobson
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