[BusyBox] string rewriting in busybox telnet client

Horatio B. Bogbindero wyu at ateneo.edu
Sun Jun 9 07:04:06 UTC 2002


first of all, i would like to congratulate everyone who contributes to this
wonderful project ... busybox! i find is pretty comprehensive and most importantly its small. 

anyway, in my quest to make a linux-based floppy bootdisk that does nothing but telnets to an SCO server running an ancient SCO application with broken or no terminal info support. 

i was able to do part of this by installing a generic redhat distribution on 
the client workstations and using a program called 'screen'. screen has this feature that rewrites strings into different strings. for example, an F1 in linux would send a string '\0A[' for example. screen can rewrite this to '\0M[' fpr example by defining a mapping in the configuration file.

what i plan to do is edit the telnet.c client that comes with black and play around with the handlenetoutput(int len) function. right now, i am soliciting advice on how to do this in most effective way. i do not currently have any idea  on how to go about this yet. 

thanks in advance and keep up the good work.

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William Emmanuel S. Yu
Ateneo Campus Network Group (AteneoCNG)
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