On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Chris Jacobson wrote:
>
> 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.
In the game though, you can correct for this by changing the following in
_parse_name (interpreter.cc):
/* skip whitespaces */
/* Also skip ASCII 35. Mac users were getting an "invalid name"
when running NCSA Telnet */
for (; isspace(*arg) || *arg == 35; arg++);
-- Brian
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