[wellylug] Telnet

[Donald Gordon]

On 23/11/2004, at 11:58 PM, Steven Mulvay wrote:

> Hi all, how are you?
> It's Steven Mulvay here, the same guy who posted the message "Mac 
> Users Distro", I've merely resubscribed under a different e-mail 
> address.
>  
> I was just wondering, does the telnet application that's built into 
> the shell support IBM-Extended ASCII as well as PCI-ANSI?

Er.

The telnet application isn't built into the shell; it's a separate 
executable (like XCOPY in DOS); the command "which telnet" will tell 
you where the binary is.

The terminal program under which the shell is running provides terminal 
emulation facilities; the telnet program just shuffles data between the 
remote host and the terminal the telnet program and shell is running 
under.

I have seen a "vga" font which, when xterm was told to use it, provided 
the extra IBM linedrawing characters.  I think it comes with dosemu.

donald