[PATCH] telnet: added support for special telnet characters

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 18 14:47:22 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 4:38 PM Martin Lewis <martin.lewis.x84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Closes https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11976
>
> Adds a new flag in telnet client's command line, which
> forces telnet to send IAC's instead of the
> traditional special characters (backspace, newline etc..).
>
> This code is similar to putty's code, and is added
> for compatibility with older telnet servers.

I'm not applying it yet, waiting for more user reports -
how many devices are there which don't understand backspace/DEL chars?


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