[BusyBox] Pass Thru Echo In Telnet Client

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed May 26 01:17:21 UTC 2004


On Friday 21 May 2004 15:58, Christopher Williams wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have hacked away at networking/telnet.c to add support for ansi/vt100
> pass-through printing. It's an ugly hack, only a few lines of code, but
> I wanted to see how much interest there was in cleaning it up to merge
> or simply offer as a patch. I chose Busybox because the terminals are
> diskless 386 PCs with 4MB of ram booting GNU/Linux over BOOTP and using
> NFSROOT. Other terminal emulators had pass-through but used too much
> ram, and we were already using Busybox as our telnet client.

Could you explain to me how this differs from netcat?

Rob
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