>IF the handshake character is a '#' then it's simple enough to ignore
>it. After all, the character shouldn't (isn't?) allowed in names, and
>if you have garbage characters at the beginning of the name, you can
>be pretty sure that it's unintentional or you just have a stupid
>person that doesn't know how to type. :)~
>
>-+-jac 'A listserv where you get answers, not flames? Good Lord, what will
>-+ they think of next?'
>
>Hm, a spring that rebounds instead of staying squashed? I'll make a
>fortune off of it. :)
>
>
Well it's not a '#' char. I would have seen that ;)
It's an undisplayable character of some sort. Only the inital attempt
at entering a name fails. Fine from then on. It was also present when I
installed that AnsiQuery patch from /contrib. First attempt at a Y or N fails.
My guess, is that it's sending out a linefeed without a carriage
return, to test the remote host for 7 or 8 bits. Looked through the prefs
but didn't see anything.
-jac
root@localhost
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