From: papilla AT cs DOT tamu DOT edu (Benoit Papillault) Subject: Re: remote.tar.gz remote utilites - problems 'inetd?' 19 Jun 1998 05:10:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <000b01bd9aa4$e524a520$050120c0 AT menpc5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jonathan Storey Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Jonathan Storey wrote: > I know there are some strange and hidden behaviours of connecting > stdin/stdout > with regards to sockets under Windows etc., but I presume other people are > already successfully using this software in it's present form. I am doing myself a telnetd and some problems like that appears to, but as I have done the code, I know that I have no obvious solution. First telnetd acts as a "proxy": -every character send to telnetd is sent to the shell created by telnetd -every character send by the shell is sent to the telnet client. To have a working shell, I use: bash -i The problem is that many programs don't handle echo themselves. But normally (under Unix for example), the echo is done by the terminal. This is also true in Windows Console. But here, I have no such "tty" layer. And no way for a program running under my telnetd to say if he waants an echo or not. I see no way to solve this problem in a proper manner. But, perhaps we can use the TELNET option from the client to modify the behavior of the telnetd server. If someone has a real telnetd (let's say, you can use the Windows ftp program under it), please tell us. Benoit Papillault - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".