On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Rick Byers wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that talk no-longer treats ENTER properly when in Telnet
> LINEMODE.  It just sends/prints ^M instead of going to the next line.  ^J
> does what ^M should do.  Character mode, however, works as expected.  The
> telnet crlf option doesn't change anything. I'm not sure when exactly this
> started happening, but I'm sure it worked at one point.  It works fine on
> my 1.2 machine.
> 
> I've got 1.2D/i386 (a few days old).  I've got ncurses installed, but
> seperate from the existing curses, so it shouldn't interfere.  The problem
> arrises if I link to ncurses as well.
> 
> The problem doesn't appear to be in talk or ntalkd itself since talk
> hasn't changed since 1.2 and I reverted to the 1.2 ntalkd with the same
> effect.  I would expect it something with telnet/curses but everything
> else (including other curses stuff) works fine.
> 
> Anyone else see this?  Any suggestions?

I'd suggest trying: Break into telnet> prompt and then try mode -litecho
which should disable literal character echoing and hopefully get rid of
the ^M's ....

BTW: Can someone remove my E-mail from these mailing lists please ?
I tried doing it via majordomo .... but it didn't work.

My E-mail: bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk

> 
> Thanks,
> 	Rick
> 
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