Subject: Pine and NCSA Telnet for Mac on BSD/386

From: [email-masked] (Chris Zagar)
Date: 8 Jul 1994 21:54:06 -0700

I have a problem that I hope someone knows the solution to.  We are
running Pine on a PC running BSD/386.  Everything works great except
when people connect to the machine using NCSA Telnet on the Mac.
For these people, the return key ends up being treated like it
is sending linefeeds during mail creation, such that hitting return
either tries to attach files or in the body tries to reform the
paragraph.

Any suggestions?

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From: [email-masked] (Edgar Nielsen)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 19:21:58 GMT

Chris Zagar ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have a problem that I hope someone knows the solution to.  We are
: running Pine on a PC running BSD/386.  Everything works great except
: when people connect to the machine using NCSA Telnet on the Mac.
: For these people, the return key ends up being treated like it
: is sending linefeeds during mail creation, such that hitting return
: either tries to attach files or in the body tries to reform the
: paragraph.

I saw this problem too. I was able to get rid of it by finagling with
the NCSA telnet(2.6) settings. I think it was disabling the 'linemode' setting 
in one of the preferences, unfortunately I can't get to my mac with
the right settings.....

edgar nielsen

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 14:02:51 -0700

Chris -

     Your problem with returns being transmogrified to line feeds is a known
bug in old versions of the BSD Telnet daemon.  The choice is to upgrade to a
newer version of telnetd, or try the command
	stty -extproc
as a possible workaround.